Around 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children will now be eligible to receive health insurance following a new directive from Joe Biden's administration.The move, announced on Friday, allows participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance.
President Obama and then-vice president Biden created the DACA policy in 2012, allowing certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children to receive protection from deportation and authorization to work legally in the country.The White House statement said that President Joe Biden continues to call on Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship to 'Dreamers,' a term used to refer to these types of undocumented immigrants.