Xavier Becerra: “Mr. Chairman, in response to my friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher], he probably is aware, as I am…”

“Mr. Chairman, in response to my friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher], he probably is aware, as I am aware, that the only medical services that someone who is undocumented is entitled to are emergency services. Someone who goes in for leukemia treatment cannot go in and get this treatment and get it covered unless they are going in under an emergency. It is not an emergency if you are about to die in a year or in 6 months. An emergency is something where your life is in danger at the moment that you are going into the hospital. So the situation the gentleman has just brought up, if it occurs, should not have occurred.”