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WATCH: California Dems rally around healthcare for illegal immigrants during fiery debate
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Every Democrat asked during this week’s California gubernatorial debate said they supported providing healthcare coverage for illegal immigrants, a position they took moments after candidates spent several minutes warning that California’s healthcare system is already too expensive and straining families, businesses and the state budget.
«We had a broken immigration system, and now you want to victimize the people who are working here and making the state run,» Democratic candidate and billionaire businessman Tom Steyer said when asked if he supported giving coverage to illegal immigrants after the current California governor, Gavin Newsom, cut it to help reduce the state’s ballooning deficit.
Katie Porter, a former California congresswoman and fellow Democratic candidate for California governor, was asked point-blank about the cost concerns related to providing illegal immigrants with free healthcare coverage.
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Democratic candidates Antonio Villaraigosa, Katie Porter and Tom Steyer, Republican candidates Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco and Democratic candidate Xavier Becerra participate in a California gubernatorial debate at the East Los Angeles College Auditorium in Monterey Park, Calif., May 5, 2026. Seven candidates for California governor are participating in the third televised debate, ahead of the June 2, 2026, primary elections. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
«We can’t afford to have people who are sick, who are making the rest of us sick,» Porter responded to the cost question before her Republican opponent, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, interjected, «They shouldn’t be here,» leading Porter to pause and give him a look of bewilderment.
«When anyone doesn’t have care, the rest of us are at risk when people don’t get vaccinations,» Porter continued. «When they don’t go to the doctor, they wind up in the emergency room. They cause longer lines for the rest of us. They make our health care system — they push it to the brink.»
«Immigrants, whether documented or not, work hard. They pay taxes, and sometimes they get injured on the job or their children get sick,» former Biden administration Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said when asked if he supported the measure.
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The Trump administration expanded efforts to prevent illegal immigrants from getting public health benefits. (Getty/iStock)
«It would be foolish to tell a family that they don’t have access to the pediatrician or the family doc or not be able to use the community health center where it wouldn’t cost us so much to give them help access to good health care,» Becerra continued.
«Instead, what will happen is that child will get so ill that they will have to take that child to the hospital. And what door do they enter? The most expensive door in the health care system? The emergency room door. Why do that and spend so much money when you can do it up front?»
The remaining Democratic Party candidates on the stage, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, were not directly asked whether they supported providing healthcare to illegal immigrants in the state, nor did they indicate their stances during other portions of the debate that discussed healthcare.
«The actual way we deal with healthcare in this state is to at least stop spending $20 billion a year on free healthcare for illegal immigrants who shouldn’t even be in the country in the first place,» Republican candidate and former Fox News host Steve Hilton said during debate about how to reform the state’s healthcare system.
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Xavier Becerra, left, and Steve Hilton participate in the California gubernatorial candidate debate Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Laure Andrillon)
«When are we going to draw the line at any other crime? It’s illegal. They enter the country illegally, we’re not going to incentivize them to come here to take more of the resources that regular Californians aren’t getting,» Bianco added.
Before defending taxpayer-funded healthcare access for illegal immigrants, several of the Democratic candidates were already locked in a fight over who was more committed to government-run healthcare.
Steyer said he supports single payer «absolutely,» while Becerra said California should «try to get to a Medicare for all program.» Porter repeatedly pressed Becerra to be more explicit, asking whether he supported «California having its own state-run single-payer system.»
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But the push for expanded coverage came as candidates also acknowledged the cost problem. Steyer said healthcare is «eating up our budget» and «eating up every single family,» while Villaraigosa warned a state-run single-payer system would carry a roughly $500 billion price tag and require approval from the federal government.
«It’s pie in the sky,» Villaraigosa said.
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Federal HR office pulls back curtain on sweeping NDA plan aimed at curbing government leaks
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The Trump administration is advancing a proposal for federal agencies to use standardized nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) with employees as part of a broader push to stop internal discussions from leaking to the press.
«This is going through the full regulatory process, so people can give notices and comments,» said Office of Personnel Management (OPM) director Scott Kupor to Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview on Wednesday. «We’ll respond to all those things as well … I’d be surprised, if at the end of the day, we aren’t successful in showing people that this is important for preserving deliberative decision-making in the government.»
The proposal would create a template NDA for federal agencies to use with employees, requiring workers to acknowledge existing confidentiality rules as the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on internal leaks following incidents including the Venezuela raid leak and the doxing of ICE agents. Officials said the policy is meant to protect sensitive internal discussions, while critics question whether it could chill whistleblower protections and employee speech.
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The Trump administration is proposing NDAs for current federal employees to prevent internal leaks to the press, says OPM director. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
Kupor pointed to a «simple example» of why he said the NDAs are needed. OPM functions as the federal government’s human resources agency, overseeing personnel policy and workforce rules for federal employees.
«I had a meeting today … we had 10 people in the room … it’s really hard to run the organization if we have that conversation and then nine out of those 10 people go call the media and say, ‘hey, let me just tell you what we talked about in this conversation.’»
«It just puts us in a situation where you can’t run an organization. You can’t have a reasonable conversation with your team. It isolates decision-making to a place that I think is just not good for anybody,» he added.
Federal employees are already required to safeguard certain confidential and sensitive government information obtained through their work. OPM said the proposed NDA would not create new substantive restrictions on employee speech, but instead establish a standardized process for federal workers to acknowledge existing legal and regulatory obligations regarding confidential information.
Kupor said the proposal of NDAs is to encourage open and honest dialogue in meetings.
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«We’re just trying to avoid situations where people feel like they won’t express an opinion in a meeting because they are worried that’s going to show up on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow. I just don’t think that helps us actually run the organizations on behalf of the American people,» said Kupor.
Critics have argued the agency is expanding oversight in an effort to control damaging narratives emerging from inside the administration.
Gilbert Employment Law, which specializes in federal employment issues, partner Kevin Owen told the Government Executive that «OPM is now trying to become this super personnel office that centralizes its authority over all federal employees, ostensibly at the direction of the White House. By now controlling how federal employees are even able to communicate about matters of political concern, it’s one further step toward enacting a spoils system and making the civil service a political arm of the White House.»
The proposal also stated that the agreement would explicitly preserve employees’ rights to make disclosures authorized under federal law, including protected whistleblower complaints.
Kupor said the proposal of NDAs is to encourage open and honest dialogue in meetings. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
«I think people are thinking [it’s] another way to get rid of people, or we’re trying to squelch people from saying what they want,» said Kupor. «That’s the farthest thing from the truth. People can say whatever they want. The issue is, if we’re having a conversation at work … I think it’s very reasonable for us to say you shouldn’t go basically publish what is otherwise essentially a deliberative process of conversation out there.»
Kupor said the administration should be able to achieve discussions without media leaks and, once it’s decided, journalists can FOIA the information.
«People can appeal that to the [U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board] and forward and stuff like that. That’s how we work today. We’re not taking away any rights anybody has for any other kind of workplace related adverse actions,» said Kupor. «If you read the NDAs, it’s very expressed that nothing here interferes with traditional whistleblower issues with people going to the inspector general.»
Kupor said he is unsure whether the proposal was discussed during the first Trump administration or under previous administrations but argued the rapid expansion of the media landscape has made agencies more vulnerable to leaks.
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The NDA proposal entered in the Federal Register cites recent events such as the Venezuela raid and the doxing of ICE agents as justification for the measure. (John Moore/Getty Images)
«Particularly with the rise of social media and everything else, [federal employees] feel like they want to help people outside the world, understand what we’re doing. And none of this is intended to like to stop that. It’s just intended to allow us to have an open, honest conversation among folks. And if people want to be citizen journalists, they can do that,» said Kupor.
With the Trump administration already facing a series of legal challenges to its policy agenda, Kupor said he expects the NDA proposal could draw scrutiny as well.
«Unfortunately, there are lots of lawyers and organizations who make a living out of basically finding whatever they don’t like with the Trump administration and suing. But in this case I feel very, very comfortable,» he said.
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The proposal is open for public comment on or before June 26, according to OPM.
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La selenita se ha convertido en uno de los cristales más reconocidos dentro de las prácticas de energía contemporáneas. Este mineral, valorado tanto por su aspecto como por su historia, se distingue principalmente por su suavidad: un fragmento de selenita puede ser rayado fácilmente con una uña, debido a que ocupa el nivel dos en la escala de Mohs.
Se trata de una variedad transparente del yeso, compuesta por sulfato de calcio con agua (CaSO₄·2H₂O), y puede encontrarse en ambientes donde cuerpos de agua ricos en minerales se evaporan lentamente.
El nombre “selenita” proviene del griego y está asociado a la luna, ya que bajo la luz, el cristal suele mostrar un brillo suave que recuerda a la luminosidad lunar. Por sus características, la selenita puede presentarse de diferentes maneras: desde fragmentos totalmente incoloros y translúcidos, hasta piezas con ligeros matices, dependiendo de las impurezas presentes. Los cristales pueden adoptar formas tabulares, prismáticas, fibrosas o aciculares, según las condiciones de crecimiento.
Entre los yacimientos principales destaca la mina de Naica en México, conocida por albergar algunos de los mayores cristales de yeso jamás descubiertos. Debido a su solubilidad en agua, sumergir la selenita puede opacar su brillo o, con el tiempo, disolverla por completo. Todas estas características y detalles han sido compilados por HowStuffWorks, sitio de divulgación científica en una revisión publicada el 27 de mayo de 2026.
La selenita puede adoptar diversas formas y texturas, determinadas por el entorno en el que se desarrolla. El tipo más conocido es la selenita transparente, que suele presentarse en láminas delgadas o largas y destaca por su apariencia vítrea.
Otra variedad ampliamente comercializada es el satin spar (yeso fibroso), un yeso fibroso de brillo sedoso que, al recibir luz, puede mostrar un efecto visual conocido como “ojo de gato”. Esta última forma es muy utilizada en contextos de meditación y limpieza energética.
En regiones áridas, la selenita puede crecer alrededor de granos de arena y formar la llamada rosa del desierto, una piedra con aspecto de flor, cuyos pétalos surgen por el proceso de evaporación en presencia de arena. Las flores de yeso constituyen agrupaciones de cristales en formas retorcidas que pueden recordar a cuernos, cintas o colas de pez, lo que las distingue visualmente de las variedades más comunes.
La selenita ocupa un lugar destacado en prácticas espirituales y de energía, donde se le atribuyen propiedades como la purificación, la armonía y la claridad espiritual. Las placas de carga de selenita se emplean para “limpiar” otras piedras, bajo la creencia de que equilibran energías no deseadas cuando se colocan sobre ellas.
La selenita se utiliza como apoyo en la meditación para facilitar la conexión con guías espirituales y potenciar la claridad interna.
En civilizaciones antiguas, se creía que este mineral ofrecía protección espiritual y, en ocasiones, se empleaba yeso en polvo en revestimientos de paredes para lograr acabados suaves y luminosos. Si bien estas creencias son populares, el propio artículo de HowStuffWorks advierte que ninguna de estas supuestas propiedades cuenta con respaldo científico o validación desde la medicina occidental.
Debido a su extrema suavidad, la selenita requiere precauciones en su manipulación. Basta una presión leve para dejar marcas en la superficie, y las piezas delgadas pueden astillarse si sufren caídas. Es fundamental mantener la selenita alejada del agua, ya que la exposición prolongada puede provocar su disolución. Para limpiar el polvo, se recomienda utilizar un paño seco, evitando líquidos.
En los hogares, muchas personas ubican la selenita cerca de entradas, mesas de noche o áreas de meditación con la intención de promover ambientes tranquilos. También suele combinarse con otros cristales durante el trabajo energético para favorecer la concentración y la estabilidad emocional.
La iluminación natural o artificial influye en su aspecto: algunas piezas de satin spar parecen emitir un resplandor interno bajo la luz, mientras que las láminas transparentes se iluminan en los bordes, lo que refuerza la asociación de la piedra con la luna. Coleccionistas buscan ejemplares de yacimientos en México, Marruecos y otras regiones con abundancia mineral.
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