Illegal's access to Obamacare could be greenlighted by Senate immigration deal

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American Thinker:

March 24, 2013

Illegal's access to Obamacare could be greenlighted by Senate immigration deal

 

Rick Moran

Path to citizenship, DREAM Act, guest worker provisions - all of these pale in comparison as far as controversy when it comes to giving illegals who achieve residency status under the immigration reform bill access to federal health benefits under Obamacare.

 

Put simply, there is no moral justification for it. But Senate Dems - and president Obama - will try to achieve this goal in the upcoming immigration reform debate.

[Valin]

American Thinker:

March 24, 2013

Illegal's access to Obamacare could be greenlighted by Senate immigration deal

 

Rick Moran

Path to citizenship, DREAM Act, guest worker provisions - all of these pale in comparison as far as controversy when it comes to giving illegals who achieve residency status under the immigration reform bill access to federal health benefits under Obamacare.

 

Put simply, there is no moral justification for it. But Senate Dems - and president Obama - will try to achieve this goal in the upcoming immigration reform debate.

 

Immigration Vote Splits Gang of 8

Humberto Sanchez

March 23, 2013

 

The Senate’s bipartisan immigration working group split along party lines during a contentious budget vote to prevent illegal immigrants who receive legal status from receiving federal health benefits.

 

The Senate early Saturday morning defeated the amendment to the budget resolution which would have put the Senate on record as opposing access to health care under Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act for undocumented immigrants who get a green card.

 

The amendment, which failed 43 to 56, was offered by Senate Budget ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.

 

All Democrats — including gang members Dick Durbin of Illinois, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Charles E. Schumer of New York and Michael Bennet of Colorado — opposed the amendment. They were joined by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. All other Republicans — including immigration negotiators Marco Rubio of Florida, John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona — supported the amendment.

 

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Sessions contended the vote bodes poorly for the state of negotiations.

 

“The result of today’s vote places immigration reform in jeopardy,” Sessions said.

 

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