At Immigration, It's Sex of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

Tony Perkins, FRC Washington Update: Breaking the law has its advantages--like complimentary sex changes, for one. I suppose now that the Obama administration has dispensed with conscience rights and religious freedom, there's no limit to the health care taxpayers can be ordered to provide. Under new rules from the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), that "care" now rewards illegal immigrants with everything from government-sponsored abortions to transgender hormone treatments. The standards, just released from ICE, insist that law-breakers are entitled to better care than most U.S. citizens!

"A pregnant detainee in custody shall have access to pregnancy services... including abortion services," the guidelines explain. In addition to abortion, taxpayers will also have to foot the bill to get these women to the abortion clinic. As if that weren't outrageous enough, ICE actually commits federal dollars to drugs that are designed to help men look and sound like women and visa versa. "Transgender detainees who were already receiving hormone therapy when taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody should have continued access," the rules state. That's quite a parting gift for people who are trespassing into America illegally.

Chris Crane, President of the National ICE Council, reminds The Daily Caller that most of these detainees are convicted criminals. "They came out of jails and prisons where we treated them based on the charges that they were either convicted of or arrested for. The second they come to ICE, we have to treat them with a completely different standard. We throw law enforcement and security protocol... out the window." Now, it's important for people to understand that these benefits are not defined by the ObamaCare legislation. They are, however, part of the unilateral power vested in the government by the President's health care law. In the 2,000-plus pages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there are literally 4,156 issues left to the administration's discretion. We have all come to realize that those issues include outrages like contraception mandates and politically correct surgeries that no Congress would have approved. That's why the health care law is so dangerous. It empowers the government to practice politics--instead of empowering others to practice medicine.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is just one House member stunned by the ICE reforms. "The Obama administration's new detention manual is more like a hospitality guide for illegal immigrants. The administration goes beyond common sense to accommodate illegal immigrants and treats them better than citizens in federal custody." An ICE spokesman tried to tamp down the criticism--but ultimately made it worse by telling reporters, "It is important to note that one of the main goals of the agency... is to increase fiscal prudence and efficiencies within the system." How could the posh treatment of illegal aliens possibly help America's bottom line? And, more importantly, how is exacerbating a mental health crisis like cross-dressing beneficial to them or us? In the end, it doesn't matter who you are. This administration won't let you leave the country without taking some liberal indoctrination with you.

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