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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Health care and undocumented immigrants is all the rage since Joe Wilson insulted the President last week. Remarkably, Baucus and the White House have responded by seeming to cave.
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On Friday I explained how Rep. Joe Wilson's controversial heckling during President Obama's joint Congressional address last Wednesday laid bare the ugly-as-ever, Republican illegal immigration wedge strategy for the nation to see. What's more astounding, I argued, was that key Democrats, Senators Baucus (D-MO) and Conrad (D-ND) to...
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Few of us, however, have actually bothered to address the issue that provoked Wilson's outburst: health insurance for illegal immigrants. The line he objected to—"The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally"—is, in fact, not a "lie." The current House bill makes it very...
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