Espaillat Statement on Expansion of Affordable Healthcare to Dreamers
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) touted the Biden Administration’s effort to expand affordable health care coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.
“Dreamers contribute to their communities and our nation, the only nation many of them have ever known and have called home, and they deserve health care just like all of us,” said Congressman Adriano Espaillat. “I commend the Biden-Harris Administration on this latest effort to support immigrant families by expanding affordable, quality health care coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Dreamers are our loved ones, our nurses, teachers, and small business owners, and today’s effort will enable eligible DACA recipients to enroll in Affordable Care Act coverage for the first time, helping more than 100,000 young people gain health insurance, including 35,000 in New York.
“Our work today to support Dreamers will have reverberating implications for many years to come, keeping our communities and local economies strong. I will never give up my fight to ensure Dreamers permanent status and a pathway to citizenship and remain committed to working with President Biden and my colleagues to protect DACA and provide all immigrant youth with the opportunities and support they need to succeed.”
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Representative Espaillat is the first Dominican American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and his congressional district includes Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill and the north-west Bronx. First elected to Congress in 2016, Representative Espaillat is serving his fourth term in Congress. Representative Espaillat currently serves as a member of the influential U.S. House Committee on Appropriations responsible for funding the federal government’s vital activities and serves as Ranking Member of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the committee during the 118th Congress. He is also a member of the House Budget Committee and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), where he serves in a leadership role as the Deputy Chair as well as Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI). Rep. Espaillat is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and serves as a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus. To find out more about Rep. Espaillat, visit online at https://espaillat.house.gov/.
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