DACA recipients and access to health insurance

TUESDAY, JULY 30                                                                                                                                        PROGRAM #10453 12:00 PM PT

Immigration Edition.

Worried about the outcome of the 2024 election, congressional Democrats urged the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to ensure DACA recipients can actually access health insurance provided under the Affordable Care Act when they become eligible in November by reaching out to inform them during the enrollment period. In other news, since the last presidential election, about 3.5 million people have become naturalized U.S. citizens; according to a survey, most of them say they will vote in the November election; the majority are women, Mexican, young or middle-aged, and show a high interest in voting, concerned about the high cost of living, immigration and democracy. Finally, the use of force against immigrants is again the subject of a hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center. Immigrants detained at that facility are demanding immediate deportation and transfers to their home states rather than continued detention there, where it is reported that the mentally ill are placed in solitary confinement for periods double or triple the national average, among other things. A community organizer explains.

Guests: Nancy Flores, Deputy Director, National Partnership for New Americans, Milwaukee, WI; Alexis Manzanilla, Health Policy Researcher, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, Berkeley, CA; Maru Mora Villalpando, Community Organizer and Founder, La Resistencia, Seattle, WA.

Photo: Victoria Pickering

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