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Statement

Moms Welcome Biden Administration Move to Expand Access to Health Coverage for DACA Recipients

April 13, 2023
Health Care, Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Donna Norton, Executive Vice President of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the Biden/Harris administration decision to allow Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to obtain health insurance through the federal Medicaid and CHIP programs and the Affordable Care Act marketplace:

“America’s moms cheer the Biden administration’s move to make health coverage through Medicaid, CHIP, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace available to our country’s nearly 600,000 DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients. DACA provides protections for hundreds of thousands of young people brought to this country as children, making it the only home most have ever really known. But until now, this community – our doctors, nurses, teachers, child care and construction workers, neighbors and friends – have been excluded from the potentially lifesaving, affordable care that coverage through these government programs makes possible. It is very good news that is about to change.

“Now, Congress must take the next step – supported by an overwhelming majority of voters – by creating a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients, so they can plan secure futures. That is long overdue.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.