Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has helped halt an effort from the Biden Administration that would have made approximately 200,000 DACA recipients across the nation eligible for Obamacare.
In August of this year, Marshall joined 18 other state attorneys general in suing the federal government to stop the proposed rule from going into effect. Now just a little over three months later, the North Dakota court where the case was being litigated has blocked the proposal from the Biden Administration.
The group argued that a 1996 law generally prohibits illegal aliens from receiving federal benefits, and the Affordable Care Act itself says that an alien has to be lawfully present in the United States to receive subsidized health insurance.
“Under no circumstances should American citizens be bankrolling Obamacare for illegal immigrants,” Marshall said.
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“Not only would subsidized healthcare be another incentive for illegal immigration, but the agency threatened to cut the funding States use to run the very exchanges required under the Affordable Care Act. Thankfully, the court put another nail in the coffin of Biden’s radical leftwing agenda. I am looking forward to January 20 and a new hope for the American dream and our country’s prosperity.”
Marshall has also questioned the constitutionality of the entire DACA system.
“I was one of seven attorneys general who filed a lawsuit just over a year ago calling for the halt of the unlawful DACA program and filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against it after activist judges in at least three federal courts issued rulings blocking the dismantling of DACA,” Marshall explained in a 2019 statement to Yellowhammer News. “Since the Obama administration’s unilateral creation of DACA seven years ago, nearly one million illegal aliens been granted legal presence and work eligibility in the United States.”
“The U.S. Constitution makes clear that Congress alone has the legal authority to write U.S. immigration law, not the president through an executive branch memo.
In addition to Alabama and Kansas, state attorneys general from Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia joined the coalition.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten
