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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The event is called the People’s Deployment, and includes stops at the VA Medical Center in Tucson Saturday, the Veteran’s Memorial Park in Sierra Vista Sunday, and finally, the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Monday morning. -
The federal magistrate judge on the case had granted the Department of Homeland Security to pause the challenge by the Center for Biological Security, citing the government shutdown. -
An 81-year-old man died this week in the hospital after sustaining burns over much of his body in Saturday’s fire. -
Arizona’s water agency is taking the first step toward establishing groundwater protections in La Paz County where water levels are dropping rapidly. -
That’s after county officials pushed for moving nearly $400,000 on Tuesday to ensure babies continue to receive food and formula through November as part of the Women, Infants, and Children Program.
