Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

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Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise to discuss
President Obama's recent expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals, or DACA, which will protect a large number of unlawfully
present aliens from deportation. In addition to constitutional concerns
and national security implications, the action poses a range of
unintended consequences.

Because illegal immigrants who are granted deferred action are exempt
from being counted under the 2010 health care law's employer mandate,
which requires employers with 50 or more employees to offer health
insurance or pay a penalty, the President's policy, in effect, creates
an incentive to hire illegal immigrants over lawfully present workers.

Mr. Speaker, the President's policy disadvantages the hiring of
American citizens and those lawfully present in the United States--the
men and women who have come through legal channels, worked hard, and
played by the rules--by making it economically advantageous to hire
workers who came to the country illegally.

This week Congressman Matt Salmon of Arizona and I intend to offer an
amendment to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations that
will address this injustice. I encourage my colleagues to join in
support of the commonsense, necessary check on the Obama
administration.

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