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Life will continue to be uncertain for America’s Dreamers A federal judge’s ruling this week temporarily halted a Biden administration policy that would have allowed many young immigrants to get insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s public marketplace.
Judge Daniel Traynor of the U.S. District Court for North Dakota released Monday’s decision, part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by Republican attorneys general in 19 states against the policy, will continue until the lawsuit is heard. It is the latest setback for immigrants who are eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. the right in the US is likely to further threaten the arrival of President-elect Trump’s second term next year.
Earlier this May, the Biden administration released a new rule that allows DACA members and certain other groups of young immigrants to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges, a rule that is estimated to affect more than 140,000 people currently living in the United States on, but many Republican lawmakers and officials were quick to criticize the policy as being dominated by the executive branch. In August, a group of attorneys general, led by those in Kansas and North Dakota, filed a lawsuit vs. the federal government. While the lawsuit is still pending, Trainor’s preliminary injunction will prevent eligible immigrants from the ACA for now, a decision that angered many immigration advocates specifically designated to his current seat by Trump during his first term.
“Judge Trainor’s decision is both disappointing and wrong for the law. While we review the court’s decision to evaluate the next steps in this case, we will continue to fight on behalf of our clients and the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients who have been waiting more than a decade for life-sustaining care.” access under the Affordable Care Act,” said Nicholas Espiritu, deputy legal director of the National Immigration Law Center, in a statement. released Monday by the organization.
DACA members are undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children but have lived in the country since then without any serious problems (one of the main DACA eligibility criteria is no felony or serious misdemeanor). eligible immigrants, often called Dreamers, are named after the DREAM Act, a 2007 legislative proposal aimed at providing permanent legal Despite many attempts, the act failed to become law. President Obama launched the DACA program in 2012 via executive order as a stopgap measure, allowing some Dreamers to live and apply for work permits without fear of deportation.
Unlike the DREAM Act, however, DACA does not provide a path to legal residency, and members must renew their protected status every two years. Most young immigrants are also not protected by DACA (according to National Immigration Forum(only 530,000 Dreamers out of 3.5 million are currently in the program), and DACA members continue to suffer many disadvantages compared to other Americans. One such disadvantage is health coverage, where DACA members are more likely to have no health at all insurance, and the Biden administration’s rule was intended to help close that gap.
Even without this latest legal battle, however, the fate of DACA and Dreamer immigrants is on thin ice, especially with Trump’s second term on the horizon. US Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court has avoided ruling on the legality of the DACA program itself other claims winding their way through lower courts that could bring the issue back to the Supreme Court Given that the Court has shifted further to the right since then, DACA’s status is far from stable.
