[JustTheNews] If the CMS final rule takes effect Nov. 1, more than 200,000 DACA recipients would automatically become eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health plans nationwide.
A coalition of states led by Kansas has sued the Biden-Harris administration to block the federal government from providing free health care through the taxpayer-funded Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, to foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota Western Division and was joined by attorneys general from 14 states. The U.S. government and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are named as defendants.
At issue is a CMS final rule change called, “Clarifying the Eligibility of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Recipients and Certain Other NonCitizens for a Qualified Health Plan Through an Exchange, Advance Payments of the Premium Tax Credit, Cost-Sharing Reductions, a Basic Health Program.” In it, CMS redefines the legal term of “lawfully present” to include DACA recipients.
When Congress enacted the ACA, it limited eligibility only to “citizen[s] or national[s] of the United States [and] aliens lawfully present in the United States.” By changing the definition of “lawfully present” to include DACA recipients, CMS is enabling them to have access to taxpayer-funded ACA coverage. Doing so violates the Administrative Procedures Act, federal law that prohibits taxpayer-funded benefits from being given to illegal foreign nationals, and the Affordable Care Act, the complaint states.
Congress has already limited eligibility coverage, which excludes DACA recipients. Additionally, “DACA recipients are, by definition, unlawfully present in the United States,” the complaint states. “Indeed, eligibility for DACA requires unlawful presence in the United States.”
Former President Barack Obama created DACA through executive order in 2012. It shielded children from deportation who were brought into the country illegally by their parents and has been in litigation for 12 years. A federal judge has twice ruled DACA is illegal. The most recent ruling was in a multi-state lawsuit led by Texas to end DACA once and for all, The Center Square reported. The U.S. Supreme Court is ultimately expected to decide the case.
Numerous reports suggest between 700,000 and 800,000 DACA recipients live in the U.S. The Los Angeles Times reports there are 578,680 on record with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as of March 2023.
In June, President Joe Biden announced he was expanding deportation protections for DACA recipients and streamlining request waivers to make it easier for them to obtain temporary visas, The Center Square reported. DACA supporters argue recipients should be granted citizenship, claiming they contribute to the U.S. economy and are constructive members of society.
Others argue those with criminal records, at a minimum, should be deported. Within the first five years of the program, nearly 80,000 DACA recipients were released into the U.S. with arrest records, The Center Square reported.
"Illegal aliens shouldn't get a free pass into our country,” Kobach said. “They shouldn't receive taxpayer benefits when they arrive, and the Biden-Harris administration shouldn't get a free pass to violate federal law. That's why I am leading a multistate lawsuit to stop this illegal regulation from going into effect.”
If the CMS final rule takes effect Nov. 1, more than 200,000 DACA recipients would automatically become eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health plans nationwide.
The lawsuit cites data from the Migration Policy Institute, Pew Research Center and others to estimate how many illegal foreign nationals are estimated to receive public benefits and the associated costs to taxpayers in each of the plaintiff states.
The lawsuit asks the court to postpone the effective date of the rule, vacate it, enjoin the defendants from implementing it and award plaintiff attorneys the costs of their fees.
Joining Kobach are the attorneys general representing Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Virginia.
[NYPOST] Disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez's lengthy career in office came to an end Tuesday — a little more than a month after he was convicted of doling out political favors in exchange for gold bar bribes and cash.
The 70-year-old New Jersey Democrat was convicted of 16 felonies for taking payola in exchange for using his powerful seat to meddle in investigations of three businessmen and the governments of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Egypt.
The longtime pol — who faces over 200 years behind bars at his Oct. 29 sentencing — had previously announced his plan to step down on Aug. 20, which is payday for Senate staff and members.
Nothing surprises me anymore. I just assume that everything they do is for some evil purpose. And that means you know damn good and well what's happening to those children.
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[POSTMILLENNIAL] The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Senate Appropriations Committee has moved full speed ahead to allow illegal immigrants colonists the opportunity to make use of the state's zero-money-down, no-payment, "loan" program for buying a home. The move from the state chamber comes amidst the ongoing illegal immigration crisis at the southern border.
According to The Center Square, bill author Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno wrote of the bill, ''The social and economic benefits of homeownership should be available to everyone. As such, the California Dream for All Program should be available to all."
''When undocumented individuals are excluded from such programs, they miss out on a crucial method of securing financial security and personal stability for themselves and their families," it added.
Bill AB1840 has already passed the state Assembly and will now move onto the floor of the Senate for a vote. The program allows for applicants to get "loans" for up to 20 percent of their home's price, with zero down payment on the loan and no payments on the loan.
The "loan" can then possibly be repaid back when the home is refinanced, sold, or transferred with the borrower paying back the loan amount in addition to 20 percent of any increased value on the real estate. However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... it is not clear what happens if a family decides to keep the property long term as no provision sets a limit on how long the loan can be used.
The California Appropriations Committee analysis stated that there would be "unknown significant cost pressures, potentially in the millions annually, to provide additional funding for the Home Purchase Assistance Program to accommodate the expanded eligibility population.''
18,000 people have applied for the "loan" program costing $255 million through lottery, with 1,700 winners getting $150,000 each to go towards down payments as well as closing.
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The social and economic benefits of homeownership should be available to everyone. As such, the California Dream for All Program should be available to all.
Everyone in the whole, wide world, right? The people who run this state want to provide housing for everyone in the whole, wide world. Nevermind the impact that will have on the people who already live here. When the Democrats are done with this state nobody will want to live here.
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Paradise Free and Clear, or, Phil's Pheelz
A compassionate smile. "To be freed
From your hellscape of envy, er, need,
Of late-Marxist preening,
Self-hatred, and greening,
Grasshopper, means owning your greed.
And of course mine and everyone else's."
"Like, in common?"
Milton wept.
Or was all that posturing just setting up Friedman's spike? Off to watch the whole thing...
That's the name of Vice President Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been ' 30-second campaign spot that's been running in Arizona and Nevada for almost two weeks now, touting the Democratic candidate's ''tough'' record on border issues.
''As a border-state prosecutor, she took on narco mobs and placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border,'' the ad proclaims about her time as Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s attorney general.
''As vice president, she backed the toughest border-control bill in decades,'' the spot continues, referring to the twice-failed Biden border bill that promised to spend $20 billion on border security without taking any significant border-enforcement measures.
And the ad promises that as president, Harris will ''crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.''
The spot doesn't mention her nearly three-and-a-half-year role as ''border czar'' of the administration, likely because under her tenure Customs and Border Protection has recorded more than 10 million illegal-immigrant encounters nationwide, with about 80% at the southern border.
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[POSTMILLENNIAL] Kamala Harris' running mate Tim Walz ...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... has repeatedly said that he and his wife Gwen used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive their children. Now, CNN reveals, in Gwen's own words, that this isn't true. Walz used his own family's story of struggling with infertility as a political talking point to back his views on the reproduction industry, including abortion access.
Gwen Walz said that the couple used intrauterine insemination, a process colloquially called the turkey baster method, and not IVF, which involves the external fertilization of an egg which is then implanted into a woman's uterus. Intrauterine insemination involves placing sperm either near the cervix or into the uterus during a woman's ovulation.
"Like so many who have experienced these challenges, we kept it largely to ourselves at the time — not even sharing the details with our wonderful and close family. The only person who knew in detail what we were going through was our next door neighbor," Gwen Walz told CNN.
"She was a nurse and helped me with the shots I needed as part of the IUI process. I'd rush home from school and she would give me the shots to ensure we stayed on track."
That difference hasn't stopped Walz from spreading the message that he and Gwen benefited from IVF. "This one's personal for me about IVF and reproductive care," Walz said during a campaign stop in Arizona. "When we wanted to have children, we went through years of fertility treatment." On MSNBC in July, he made similar comments, going further to say "Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children."
Walz has repeatedly invoked his own experiences when discussing IVF and restrictions against abortion in the US. Being pro-abortion is one of the only policies that the Harris ticket has advocated for resolutely. Abortion access is something Harris wants to legalize at the federal level so that no state can restrict it by age of the woman or gestation period—at least that's what her record indicates.
Tom Elliott put together an epic thread of all the times Walz has made the false claim.
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Given, the Harris / Walz's campaign flip-flop constancy on issues.
Have they considered simplifying the correction cycle and just have Harris take one side and have Walz say and take the other?
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intrauterine insemination, a process colloquially called the turkey baster method
Also known as the "Webb Hubbell/Hillary" method
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Of all the stupid, easily disproven lies - what did it gain him to come up with this whopper? Maybe he should have claimed to be trans... that, at least, there's evidence for.
REPORTER: "How are you preparing for a debate with Tim Walz?"
JD Vance: "Well I found a good friend from back home who embellishes and lies a lot... and I'm having him stand in for Tim Walz." pic.twitter.com/SkcTggpy60
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Like you wouldn't believe Darth. Just watched Hillbilly Elegy. Mrs. Warthog has read the book which goes into much more detail. This guy is a fighter like you wouldn't believe. Pres. Trump made a great pic.
Democrats kickoff Day 2 of their convention and have no clue what the lyrics to the national anthem of the United States are. pic.twitter.com/EkpIgd2Ms4
They’re being openly racist at the DNC and calling for “darker” people to completely replace white people and everyone cheers for it. Cool. pic.twitter.com/oYss29Jcy2
[BREITBART] Establishment media outlets are signaling that Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris who got her start in politix between former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' knees ’s honeymoon phase is over after the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... ) saw major issues with logistics and operations.
Several media figures from across the spectrum began publicly criticizing and even openly mocking Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... for their mistakes at the DNC, particularly with regard to press operations and workspace but also with regard to the flow of convention programming that went far too long on Monday evening. The derailed convention programming, which was far behind schedule, led to President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... —the sitting president of the United States—being pushed until nearly 11:30 p.m. eastern time before he finally took the stage late Monday evening. Democrats even canceled planned speeches from Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... (D-FL) and a planned performance from award-winning musician James Taylor.
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[NYPOST] Former House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... defended herself against speculation that President Biden is frustrated over her role in the mutiny against him.
Declining to confirm whether or not she has spoken with Biden, 81, since he dropped out last month, Pelosi (D-Calif.), 81, contended that she did what was necessary.
"Sometimes you have to take a punch for the children," she told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... Monday. "I did what I had to do."
"My concern was not about the president, it was about his campaign," she added, before implying that Vice President Kamala Harris It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day ushered in "exuberance" and "excitement."
She then grew uncomfortable with the line of questioning, blurting out, "Why are we even talking about it?"
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[NYPOST] "Comrade Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been has just informed us that she will NOT do the FoxNews Debate on September 4th," the Republican nominee for president wrote on Truth Social.
The vice president’s apparent decision to turn down the debate didn’t shock Trump.
"I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and her HORRIBLE Performance on the Border, our "Border Czar," where millions of criminals and people from mental institutions and terrorists, have been allowed to pour into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted," the former president wrote.
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She also refused an invitation from Elon Musk to do an interview with the same format as Trump's. There is one leftist organization wanting the FEC to investigate Elon's Trump interview as an illegal campaign contribution.
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Now, when I load up my streaming main page, her brat holder is all over the place in the guise of 'what is today's headline news?', even for Trump pieces.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The Biden-Harris Department of Justice altered the headline of a blurb, concealing the identity of a Jordanian national who has been charged with four counts of threatening to use explosives as well as one count of destruction of an energy facility.
According to the Department of Justice, Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 43, who is a Jordanian national residing in the state of Florida, was indicted on the aforementioned charges. Hnaihen "attacked a power facility and threatened local businesses, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages," FBI Director Christopher Wray said of the crime. Court documents state that he targeted businesses in the Orlando area for their perceived support of Israel.
On Thursday, a blurb from the US Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida was set out with the title, "Jordanian National Indicted For Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility," as seen in a link to the blurb on Google search from Thursday.
The title of the blurb was changed to "Man Arrested for Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility" and is in step with the blurb from the Office of Public Affairs for the whole DOJ, which also bears the title, "Man Arrested for Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility." The URL the blurb is found under still has the ending "jordanian-national-indicted-explosives-threats-and-attack-energy-facility," however the words "Jordanian" or "Jordan" do not appear on the page of the blurb from the Florida DOJ office as of Friday. News coverage of the incident blew up after the DOJ made the announcement.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Disgraced Sen. 
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
The 
...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota. 
...every time you hear the phrase 
[NYPOST] Former House Speaker 
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The Biden-Harris Department of Justice altered the headline of a 
