President Obama is expected to make an announcement this Friday about granting a form of legal status for up to 5 million people in the United States illegally. However, officials say that one key government benefit will not be extended to these individuals-government subsidies for health care from the Affordable Care Act.
The move is seen as potentially avoiding conservative fury over providing government health care to illegal immigrants.
In 2009, Republican congressman Joe Wilson famously yelled “You lie!” at Obama during the State of the Union when he said Obamacare wouldn’t go to illegal immigrants. Read more at the New York Times.
{Andy Heller-Matzav.com Newscenter}
