Excerpt: "A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from denying immigrants visas unless they can prove they will have health insurance."
Migrant children at the border. (photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters)
Federal Judge Blocks Administration From Denying Immigrants Visas Unless They Can Prove Access to Health Insurance
27 November 19
federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from denying immigrants visas unless they can prove they will have health insurance.�
Judge Michael Simon ruled that "the President's Proclamation requiring legal immigrants to show proof of health insurance before being issued a visa by the State Department is inconsistent with the INA," referring to the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Simon had previously temporarily barred the administration from implementing the policy, and has now granted a nationwide preliminary injunction pending resolution of the case.
The policy would require that visa applicants verify they would be covered by approved health insurance within 30 days of entry into the US or could "pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs" -- a potential obstacle for immigrants, especially if they do not have the financial means. Accepted health insurance includes employer-sponsored and family coverage plans, unsubsidized individual health plans, and short-term plans -- but not Medicaid or Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Simon's order comes in a lawsuit filed by a group of US citizens who assert that the policy effectively serves as a new form of "family separation." In banning hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the United States, they argue, the rule could result in separating families who are immigrating via family-sponsored visas.
Esther Sung, a senior litigator at the Justice Action Center representing plaintiffs in the case, said in a statement that she was "so grateful for this court ruling that will keep families together and allow other families to reunite."�
"This decision is an important check on the Trump administration's effort to rewrite our nation's immigration and health care laws in violation of the boundaries set out in the Constitution," she added.
Nadia Dahab, a senior staff attorney at Innovation Law Lab also representing plaintiffs, praised the decision for "protect(ing) our Nation's immigrant families from suffering irreparable harm as a result of the President's harmful and unlawful proclamation," adding in a statement that the rule of law "does not allow the President to rewrite our immigration laws this way."�
President Donald Trump issued the proclamation in October, saying that "immigrants who enter this country should not further saddle our healthcare system, and subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs."
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, in 2017 three-quarters of the 27.4 million uninsured people under age 65 were US citizens.
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I've lived deep south for 40+ yrs. and have always blamed this on racism, but clearly it's more than that. Brain-washing??
For those of you who haven't seen the video of this sink hole, look it up on you-tube, it's scary.
Their argument against cutting off their welfare benefits is that they have been paying their taxes. They, once again, emotionally are unable to comprehend that what they pay is insignificant compared to what they get back.
The 70,000 salary this guy pulls down tells it all. In rural Louisiana that is a ton of money. Clone him all over the state and you never get oil and gas to do the right thing.
TPP is theft!
Once upon a time when I was about 12 or 13 I was taught a invaluable lesson.
My father use to take a elderly couple out to Sunday brunch once every month --they were the parents of a friend of his who had died years ago. My father always paid the bill for lunch since they were considerably less well off than we were.
Then one Sunday he let the other man pay the bill and thanked him profusely for the lunch.
Noticing this I questioned my father why he had let him pay?
He told me that a man's pride is worth more to him than money --and that why he let him pay this time and thanked him.
We liberals fight on but I think we are outnumbered by the Neanthersols who voted Trump into the Republican nomination.
We have to fight on for the good of the planet but damn, who put these uneducated people in charge of the country.
As Bryan noted above, we have emotion TRUMPing reason. I think there's also somewhat of a "herd mentality" in effect. If all your friends and neighbors repeat the same sentiments about government, liberals and the media, you're likely to echo these sentiments without really thinking about them in a critical way.
As snake-oily and self-involved as it's become, and be they Tea Billies, mainstream Republicans or the whacky TrumpNuts who continue to double, triple and quadruple down on their mushy theme (i.e. 'Smaller Government Will Save Us All From Everything Bad Because I Say It Will'), it long ago became the goto circular campaign 'Theme' of choice for off-cuffing standard, hard-right, crowd-stoking rants that help assure reelection. Then afterwards, proceeding to methodically swing the axe at any and all aspects of Government that cannot be For-Profit Privatized into the hands of Corporate Benefactors so that when the next election rolls around, their supporters (a.k.a.'Collate ral Damage') can be directed to look back at a Government razing record to see that he/she successfully ripped apart more Government of, by and for the People and will continue to do so if reelected.
That's it! That's what Trickle Down has devolved to in its entirety -- FAMILIAR SNAKE-OIL.., BLIND IGNORANCE.., PATHOLOGICAL FOOT SHOOTING.., REELECTION.., CATASTROPHIC OUTCOMES.., Wash-Rinse-Elec ted-Repeat.., Wash-Rinse-Elec ted-Repeat.
When executives in Japan cause this kind of death or problems they resign in disgrace. They are expected to do so. Sometimes they are jailed. Here in the USA we give bonuses to sociopathic executives willing to sacrifice workers and the environment for the almighty dollar.
This has to change.
"What have the Romans done for us lately?"
"The aqueduct."
Oh yeah right the aqueduct but have they really done for us lately?
"Public baths".....etc and on it goes. It's so much like this conversation that I almost fell out of my chair laughing. I invite you all to watch it on Youtube. The similarity is striking and hilariously pathetic. I will ever understand the Southern mentality. I give up after reading this. This guy represents an example of evolutionary mutation. These people are committing cultural suicide and stubbornly holding onto their self-destructiv e pride as they fall into their evolutionary sink hole. We cannot allow them to take the rest of us with them.