Sen. Mark Kelly and Congressman Greg Stanton are among a group of Democrats in Washington, D.C., opposing a Trump administration plan to cut health care access for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.
Kelly and Stanton were some of 120 legislators who signed a letter to Heath and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy. They say the agency’s recent proposal to block DACA recipients from the Affordable Care Act Marketplace would restrict tens of thousands of immigrants from access to affordable health care.
The Obama-era DACA program has given some undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children protection from deportation and a work permit, but no path to citizenship.
Recipients were allowed to access Affordable Care Act health care for the first time at the end of last year. Another proposed rule filed by the Trump administration in March would reverse that, if it goes into effect.
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Emmanuel Damas, 56, died Monday at Honor Health hospital in Scottsdale after complaining of a toothache in mid-February in ICE custody. -
Delegations from the United States and Mexico are meeting March 16 to start talks on the treaty that binds the two countries and Canada. -
Arizona’s measles outbreak is showing signs of slowing down. The Arizona Department of Health Services reported just one new measles case this week. -
A former Yuma Elementary School District employee pleaded guilty to two felonies after investigators discovered she embezzled $86,000. -
A mining company is pioneering a new method to mine copper from low-grade ores in Cochise County.
