Marshall sues to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving Obamacare benefits

August 8, 2024 - (Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) joined a coalition of 16 states in filing a lawsuit to stop the Biden-Harris administration from allowing illegal aliens from to receive subsidized health care under the Affordable Care Act.

The final plan, set to take effect November 1, would make more than 200,000 deferred actions for childhood arrival (DACA) recipients eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health plans, including 3,460 in Alabama.

"The latest assault on the American worker by the Biden-Harris administration is forcing tax paying American citizens to subsidize Obamacare for illegal aliens," Attorney General Steve Marshall said. "Not only is this unconstitutional, but it is just plain wrong. First, this administration is demanding that hardworking Americans pay for someone else's college degree, then it forces them to pay for medical procedures that violate their beliefs, and now they want to dictate paying for healthcare for people who shouldn't even be in this country. At some point the taxpayers are going to run out of money to give the government to fund their ill-conceived entitlement programs."

Marshall and the AGs claim that the new regulation announced by the Department of Health and Human Services violates the plain text of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, itself.

"In the ACA, Congress limited eligibility to participate in a qualified health plan through a subsidized health exchange to citizens or nationals of the United States and individuals 'lawfully present' in the United States," the complaint reads.

According to the complaint, the proposed rule also violates a federal law that prohibits giving public benefits to aliens.

In addition to Attorney General Marshall and Kansas Attorney General Kobach, attorneys general from Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Virginia also joined the suit.