If you have a UBI, everyone with a lower quality of life will attempt to gain entry to your country to receive the entitlement, and there are only so many resources to go around.
You can’t have strong entitlements and liberal immigration policy.
Downvoted, but California legislated (Immigrant Worker Protection Act) to penalize employers who report illegal immigrants to ICE while providing healthcare benefits to non citizens.
More egregious was how California handled Prop 187 in 1994, which effectively banned the state from providing taxpayer-funded services to illegal aliens. [0]
Long story short: the amendment passed, was challenged in court, the state decided not to defend it, and that resulted in the amendment being overturned in the courts. Illegal aliens today have incredibly broad access to taxpayer-funded services in California.
It's frustrating. People are constantly saying the people of California deserve the current social situation—because they "voted for it"—but the truth is they voted against it and were simply overruled and betrayed by their own Government. If the government is unresponsive to the will of the people, what, exactly are the people supposed to do (short of an armed rebellion)? What they've actually done is move to other states…
