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An Open Letter

To: Rep. Evans

From: A constituent in Greeley, CO

July 3, 2025

Why are you lying about this bill helping us? We will remember this. So will God. BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL IMPACT: 10–13M lose coverage; 7.8M lose Medicaid 5.6M lose access at health centers; $32B lost revenue Uncompensated care +$48B/yr by 2034 1.22M jobs lost, $154B GDP drop Poorest 10%: –$1,600/yr | Top 10%: +$12,000/yr 8,200–24,600 more deaths/year support drops to 25% when impacts revealed Debt +$2.4–5T | Debt-to-GDP: 124% by 2034 Medicaid Facts: 1 in 5 Americans on Medicaid Covers 40% of kids, 60% of nursing home residents Demographics: 36% children, 10% elderly, 10% disabled Racial breakdown: 41% White, only 29% Hispanic, 64% of adult enrollees work full/part-time IMMIGRANT FACTS: Foreign-born: 18.6% of labor force(~29.1M) 88% of labor force growth 2022 taxes: – Federal:$382.9B | State/local:$196.3B – Undocumented:$59.4B federal, $13.6B state/local – Social Security:$25.7B | Medicare:$6.4B 2021:$1.9T earned, $524.7B taxes paid, $1.4T spending power 20% of entrepreneurs are immigrants + 25% of new U.S. firms, 45% of Fortune 500 1994–2023 housing: $88B/yr in property tax, $23B rent, $33B value increase Immigration reduces deficit by $897B/10 yrs Texas (2012–18): U.S.-born 2× more likely to commit violent crime, 2.5× drugs, 4× property crimes vs: Homicide arrests: undocumented = half that of U.S.-born Homicide convictions/100k: U.S.-born 3.1 | Illegal 2.2 | Legal 1.3 1980–2022: immigrant population doubled, crime fell 60%, violent crime –34.5% TX homicide convictions/100k (2013–15): – U.S.-born: 2.07 | Black: 10.47 | White: 1.22 | Hispanic: 1.72 – Foreign-born: 1.25 | Undocumented: 1.74 GOD SAYS: Ex. 22:21 – Don’t oppress the alien; you were aliens. Lev. 19:33-34 – Treat foreigners as native-born; love them. Deut. 10:18-19 – God loves and defends foreigners—so must you. Jer. 7:6-7 – Don’t oppress the foreigner, fatherless, or widow. Zech. 7:10 – Don’t oppress the widow, orphan, foreigner, or poor. Prov. 14:31 – Oppressing the poor dishonors God. Prov. 19:17 – Lending to the poor = lending to God. Deut. 15:7-8 – Be openhanded to the poor. Isa. 58:6-7 – Loose injustice, shelter the wanderer. Luke 6:20 – Blessed are the poor. James 2:5 – God chose the poor to be rich in faith. Isa. 1:17 – Seek justice, defend the oppressed. Ps. 82:3-4 – Defend the poor and fatherless. Prov. 31:8-9 – Speak for the voiceless and poor. Amos 5:24 – Let justice roll like a river. Matt. 25:36,40 – Care for the sick, imprisoned, and "least of these." Ps. 41:1-3 – God sustains those who care for the poor. Luke 10:27 – Love your neighbor. Gal. 6:2 – Bear one another’s burdens. 1 John 3:17-18 – How can God’s love dwell in someone who ignores a sibling in need? Isa. 10:1-3 – Woe to unjust lawmakers who rob the poor. Ezek. 16:49-50 – Sodom’s sin: pride, excess, neglect of the needy. Amos 2:6-7 – Selling the needy for sandals; trampling the poor.

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