DACA and ACA Come Full Circle
Flash back to September 2009. President Obama was advocating for his health care reform during a joint session of Congress. He sought to assure the American people that the Affordable Care Act would not provide coverage for illegal immigrants.
Obama: There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.
Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina famously yelled out, “You lie.”
Obama responded, “It’s not true.” The Center for American Progress offered a helpful fact-check, finding that “Every proposal on the table explicitly disqualifies illegal immigrants from receiving federal benefits.”
President Obama also said that the ACA did not raise taxes.
Now flash forward to June 2012. In the span of two weeks, the Obama administration announced DACA and Chief Justice Roberts upheld the Affordable Care Act. That was a pretty impressive thirteen day run! So much for that no-tax promise. But, in keeping with his other promise, in August 2012, the Obama administration expressly excluded DACA recipients from the ACA, and CMS definition of “lawfully present.” Though there were several challenges to DACA, none gained much steam.
Two years later, in November 2014, the Obama Administration announced DAPA. That executive action
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