Anti-immigrant groups like FAIR, aided and abetted by pundits like CNN's on-air immigrant-basher Lou Dobbs, and validated by rabble-rousing Congressmen like Joe Wilson, were trying to kill health care reform with their typical line that new benefits were going to be provided to undocumented immigrants. It wasn't true—but, as...
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Today the Senate Finance Committee is considering several key amendments on immigration to the current health insurance reform legislation. The worst amendments are sponsored by Senators Kyl (R-AZ), Grassley (R-IA) and Ensign (R-NV). Check out this alert by reform advocates working on the intersection of healthcare and...
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Earlier this week, Senator Grassley (R-IA) pulled a Wilson. He claimed that the Baucus health insurance reform bill did not include sufficient provisions to keep undocumented immigrants from accessing care under the proposed health insurance reforms, as if we hadn't had enough GOP immigration wedge politics in one...
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Much is being made of the 20-to-1 vote by the State Board of Community Colleges to admit illegal immigrants at North Carolina's 58 member institutions next year.
While there are many legitimate questions in play, the furor is misplaced, if for no other reason than the impact of the move...
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Yesterday Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) spoke at the National Citizenship Day celebration in Washington, DC, in front of hundreds of community leaders and Members of Congress, who urged him to introduce real immigration reform legislation, real soon. To an eager crowd, Rep. Gutierrez announced that he would introduce such...
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Sep 16, 2009
The alarm among immigrant advocates over measures excluding legal immigrants from a health care exchange established under the Senate Finance Committee's bill is growing. The new measure includes a clause I hadn't seen before blocking even legal immigrants whose status is set to expire within one year from receiving...
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He suggests that those here illegally be kept from taking part in an insurance exchange set up by the government. Some on the left say that's bad policy that panders to the likes of Joe Wilson.
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There are increasing signs that two of the hottest hot-button issues in town — health care reform and immigration — are becoming inextricably linked. And that's bad news for President Barack Obama as he tries to fashion a compromise.
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Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who is leading bipartisan negotiations on health care legislation, on Monday said he would include in his bill a proposal by the Obama White House to bar illegal immigrants from buying health coverage through a new insurance marketplace, or exchange, even if the...
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As Congress's debate over health-care legislation lumbers toward a defining test for the Obama presidency, partisans on both sides of another issue -- immigration -- escalated their own proxy war this week, concluding that the fates of the two issues have become politically linked.
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