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Rep. Lamar Smith: Obamacare Fund Used to Promote Amnesty

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Rep. Lamar Smith: Obamacare Fund Used to Promote Amnesty
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Article author: 
Joel Himelfarb
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Newsmax
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Fri, 10/31/2014
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A new "public health fund" created under Obamacare has turned into a political slush fund, financing projects that have little to do with providing affordable health care to Americans, according to a senior House lawmaker, former Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith. 

In a blistering letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, Rep. Smith, a 10-term Texas Republican, wrote that the Prevention and Public Health Fund created under the 2010 healthcare overhaul is being used to finance television ads promoting amnesty programs for illegal aliens.

Smith pointed to a report by CNS News that the Department of Health and Human Services gave a $15 million grant to an organization called the California Endowment, a vocal advocate for Obamacare. Newsbusters (a media watchdog group which, like CNS News, is part of the Media Research Center) reported that one advertisement sponsored by the California Endowment which aired on the Spanish-language television outlet Univision "focuses not on health care, but rather on reminding undocumented [illegal] immigrants to renew their Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) permits."

The DACA program is an Obama Administration initiative awarding renewable two-year grants of legal status—  including Social Security numbers and work cards —  to illegals who say they arrived in the United States prior to their 16th birthday. The administration says it is using its "prosecutorial" discretion" over when to arrest and deport those illegally in the country. Critics counter that the implementation of DACA is a violation of the Constitution: President Obama could not persuade Congress to enact amnesty into law, so he usurped lawmakers’ powers and acted unilaterally. 


 

House Republican slams funding for child migrants' legal representation

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House Republican slams funding for child migrants' legal representation
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Article author: 
Cristina Marcos
Article publisher: 
The Hill
Article date: 
Thu, 10/02/2014
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The Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it would authorize $9 million over the next two years to go toward unaccompanied minors' legal proceedings. Additionally, some states, such as New York and California, have also set aside funding for the child migrants' legal costs.

"The Obama administration has again ignored our federal immigration laws, which prohibit federal funding of legal representation to illegal immigrants before immigration courts," Smith said in a statement. 

Associated Press drops the ball on coverage of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stop deportation of 7 illegal aliens

Does the Associated Press (AP) know anything about the illegal immigration issue?

If you read this story, you'll come to the conclusion that, no, it does not.

First and foremost, let's be honest:  The AP, in it's coverage of illegal immigration, really doesn't care about abiding by the rules of good journalism.   Read more about Associated Press drops the ball on coverage of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stop deportation of 7 illegal aliens

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