President Joe Biden is opening up the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, to undocumented immigrants enrolled in former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
On Friday, Biden issued The final rule would also make Obamacare lists available to some DACA illegal aliens enrolled in the program. President Obama first created the DACA program by executive order, which over the years has protected more than 1 million illegal aliens from deportation.
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Previously, researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that the cost of opening Obamacare and Medicaid rolls to illegal aliens would cost U.S. taxpayers about $4,600 per illegal alien.
At this rate, Obamacare and Medicaid for DACA illegal aliens could cost American taxpayers about $2.8 billion each year.At the same time, more 25 million Americans are expected to be uninsured today.
Biden said in a statement:
Nearly 12 years ago, President Obama and I announced the DACA program, which allows our young people to live and work in the only country they call home. Since then, DACA has provided more than 800,000 Dreamers with the ability to legally work, receive an education, and contribute their immense talents to make their communities better and stronger. [Emphasis added]
I am proud of Dreamers’ contributions to our country and am committed to providing them with the support they need to succeed. That is why I previously directed the Department of Homeland Security to take all appropriate steps to “preserve and strengthen” DACA.That’s why Today, we are taking this historic step to ensure DACA recipients have the same access to health care. As neighbors through the Affordable Care Act. [Emphasis added]
Biden first announced efforts to obtain DACA illegal alien tax breaks through Obamacare last April. At the time, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas praised the move.
Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), as well as several House Republicans, lobbied Biden last year to rescind the plan, but the administration moved forward.
In his 2012 State of the Union address, Obama vowed to Americans that illegal aliens were not eligible for Obamacare, to which Rep. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina) responded, “That’s a lie!” he yelled.
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