President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are facing a legal challenge to their effort to get free health care coverage for DACA recipients. (Tierney L. Cross)
"You have to have entered the U.S. illegally to qualify for DACA status. The 2012 memo creating DACA affirms that it ‘confers no substantive right, immigration status or pathway to citizenship. Only the Congress, acting through its legislative authority, can confer these rights.’ And at least two federal courts have held DACA itself to be illegal," Kobach wrote in an opinion article for the Wall Street Journal.
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"The new Biden-Harris rule will worsen the disaster at the border. When word about taxpayer-subsidized healthcare reaches the home countries of would-be illegal aliens, many more will make the journey. When you reward illegal behavior, you get more of it," he added.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Many of President Biden's executive actions have been thwarted by Republican legal challenges. (Susan Walsh/AP)
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The lower payments were expected to kick in on July 1 for an estimated eight million borrowers enrolled in the SAVE program, but the administration has run into several legal hurdles.
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