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🚨 Oh yeah...Musk/Trump Regime's CMS plans to reverse Biden-era #ACA rules, throw #DACA & #Transgender folks under the bus, shorten Open Enrollment Period & much more...

acasignups.net/25/03/27/oh-yea

ACA Signups · Oh yeah...Musk/Trump CMS plans to reverse Biden-era ACA rules, throw DACA & transgender folks under the bus, moreThis was actually announced a few weeks ago, but I was knee-deep in my Congressional District-level Enrollment Breakout Pie Chart project so I didn't get around to posting about it until now. Via the Musk/Trump Admin's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to address the troubling amount of improper enrollments impacting Affordable Care Act (ACA) Health Insurance Marketplaces across the country. CMS’ 2025 Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule includes proposals that take critical and necessary steps to protect people from being enrolled in Marketplace coverage without their knowledge or consent, promote stable and affordable health insurance markets, and ensure taxpayer dollars fund financial assistance only for the people the ACA set out to support. It's important to note from the outset that the issue of people being enrolled in ACA plans (or switched from their existing plan to another) by unscrupulous insurance agents/brokers is a real one which I've written about several times before; some of the actions being taken by the Musk/Trump Admin to address this issue are actually reasonable.

"Jose Barco-Chirino is the son of a Cuban political prisoner who protested against Communism. He was born when the family fled to Venezuela and granted asylum in America at the age of 5.

The promise of U.S. citizenship from the Army sounded better than working construction in Miami, so he joined up before he was old enough to drive.

Between tours he filled out citizenship papers, but they disappeared."

#StarsAndStripes #Immigration #Venezuela #USMilitary #Cuba #DACA #USArmy #VeteransAffairs
stripes.com/veterans/2025-02-1

Stars and StripesFormer Fort Carson Iraq war veteran gives up the fight to stay in the US

They are grabbing DACA recipients in Miami-Dade for quick deportation.
These fooking rats are cruel.
A science educator nabbed at her scheduled immigration check-in.
This program is about 75% Hispanic. It is unfair to others - it is also a pull factor; selectively rewarding unaccompanied children to risk their lives with smugglers.

#deferredactionforchildhoodarrivals #daca #ice #defferedaction #immigration #miamidade #florida

nbcmiami.com/news/local/miami-

NBC 6 South Florida · Miami-Dade teacher with DACA faces deportation after being detained by ICEBy NBC6
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Where Noem has fulfilled a requirement is an allegiance to Trump’s nativist agenda, including effort to end #DACA, troop deployments to the border at the expensive of her constituents, and refusing to join the widespread bipartisan condemnation of his cruel and traumatic family separation policy.

🚨 BREAKING: BAD NEWS: 8th Circuit refuses to continue stay; #DACA recipients in 19 states *not* eligible for #ACA enrollment after all:

acasignups.net/24/12/26/update

ACA Signups · Update: (sigh) 8th Circuit Court refuses to continue stay of DACA ACA eligibility injunction; enrollment in 19 states shut down & cancelled after allORIGINAL STORY & PRIOR UPDATES HERE. (sigh) Goddammit. This isn't terribly surprising but it's still pretty disappointing. As laid out in my prior (repeatedly updated) story about this ongoing saga, the eligibility of up to 100,000 or so uninsured DACA recipients to enroll in healthcare coverage via the ACA marketplaces has been bouncing back & forth for some time now. President Biden originally made a rule change to make them eligible to enroll back in May 2024. Unfortunately, earlier this fall a coalition of 19 Republican state Attorneys General filed a lawsuit to block the Biden Administration from enrolling DACA recipients, and the courts have ping-ponged their status a few times ever since. Things were looking good a week or so ago when the 8th Circuit Court issued a stay on the injunction...but I just got the most recent ruling from the 8th Circuit Court, and it's bad news: On December 16, 2024, we granted the agency’s request for a temporary administrative stay of the district court’s December 9 order, pending our consideration of the agency’s motion to stay the district court’s order pending appeal.

📣 UPDATE: 8th Circuit Court issues stay of injunction; #DACA recipients can enroll in #ACA coverage nationally after all (for now)!

acasignups.net/24/12/17/update

ACA Signups · Update: 8th Circuit Court issues stay of injunction; DACA recipients can enroll in ACA coverage nationally after all (for now)!SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM Via KFF: The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was created to protect eligible young adults who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and to provide them with work authorization for temporary, renewable periods. As of December 31, 2022, there were roughly 580,000 active DACA recipients from close to 200 different countries of birth residing all over the U.S. While individuals with DACA status can be authorized to work, they remain ineligible for many federal programs, including health coverage through Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance Marketplaces. These restrictions result in higher uninsured rates among DACA recipients, contributing to barriers accessing health care. On April 26, 2023, the Biden Administration published a proposed rule to expand eligibility for health coverage to DACA recipients. Such an eligibility expansion would likely reduce uninsured rates among DACA recipients and, in turn, facilitate access to care and enhance financial protections from medical costs. The future of the DACA program remains uncertain with it subject to pending court rulings. From last May: Today, the U.S.

COLORADO: C4HCO confirms the ~12K #DACA recipients in CO *can still enroll in #ACA coverage* despite Monday's federal court ruling:

acasignups.net/24/12/12/colora

ACA Signups · Colorado: C4HCO confirms the ~12K DACA recipients in CO can still enroll in ACA coverage during the 2025 Open Enrollment Periodvia Connect for Health Colorado: Connect for Health Colorado’s Statement Regarding a Federal Court’s Dec. 9 Decision in Kansas v. United States of America Denver, Colo. – Kevin Patterson, chief executive officer of Connect for Health Colorado, released the following statement regarding a federal court’s Dec. 9 decision regarding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients’ ability to enroll in a qualified health plan through the health insurance marketplace. “The state of Colorado is not affected by a federal court’s Dec. 9 decision in Kansas v. United States of America,” said Kevin Patterson, chief executive officer of Connect for Health Colorado, the state’s official health insurance marketplace. “For plan year 2025, DACA recipients in Colorado can still enroll in health insurance, and may still qualify for financial assistance for health coverage. We will continue to monitor developments and stay in touch with our partners and enrollees as needed.” Colorado has an estimated 12,000 DACA recipients living in the state who could potentially utilized the Biden Administration's DACA ACA enrollment policy. Again, Monday evening's federal court ruling only applies to the 19 states which challenged the Biden administration’s Final Rule...which did not include Colorad.

Welp. So much for that: Up to 100,000 uninsured #DACA recipients have #ACA eligibility shot down by Trump-appointed judge:

acasignups.net/24/12/09/welp-s

ACA Signups · Welp. So much for that: Up to 100,000 uninsured DACA recipients have ACA exchange eligibility shot down by Trump-appointed judgeVia KFF: The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was created to protect eligible young adults who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and to provide them with work authorization for temporary, renewable periods. As of December 31, 2022, there were roughly 580,000 active DACA recipients from close to 200 different countries of birth residing all over the U.S. While individuals with DACA status can be authorized to work, they remain ineligible for many federal programs, including health coverage through Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance Marketplaces. These restrictions result in higher uninsured rates among DACA recipients, contributing to barriers accessing health care. On April 26, 2023, the Biden Administration published a proposed rule to expand eligibility for health coverage to DACA recipients. Such an eligibility expansion would likely reduce uninsured rates among DACA recipients and, in turn, facilitate access to care and enhance financial protections from medical costs. The future of the DACA program remains uncertain with it subject to pending court rulings. From last May: Today, the U.S.

#Introduction
My name is Karen, which used to be a perfectly good name, but you know what happened to it. Anyway, I live in Colorado with my husband and our kids live nearby. I am retired from teaching ESL to every age from kinder to adults. I loved my career.
I try to be a positive and encouraging person, but that does not mean I am okay with much of what is going on. If you vote Republican please don’t follow me, we are not morally compatible.
#LGBTQ+ #BLM #DACA 🟦🌻🌈