NEWS ROUND UP
Cantor’s Defeat Could
Put Immigration Reform
in Obama’s Court
by: Elena Shore
DACA Students’ Right
to Medi-Cal Routinely
Rejected
by: Viji Sundaram
The defeat of House Majority
Leader Eric Cantor was quickly
interpreted by national media as a
signal that immigration reform was
dead on arrival. But for immigration
reform advocates, the strategy has
not changed and hope for reform is
not dead: It may just be in the hands
of President Obama.
Advocates have long been
pressuring Obama to take executive
action on immigration reform. But
Obama was still holding out the
possibility that the House might vote
on it this summer; his recent delay
of the review of deportations was an
attempt to give the House time to act.
Now Cantor’s defeat to Tea
Party-backed David Brat could
send House Republicans running
from the issue, and make an
executive action by the president
the last chance for reform.
Which, ironically, Virginia
voters might not be opposed to.
A poll by Public Policy Polling
on Tuesday found that among
Republican
registered
voters
in Cantor’s district, 70 percent
support immigration reform that
would secure the borders, block
employers from hiring those here
illegally, and allow undocumented
residents
without
criminal
backgrounds to gain legal status.
Support for immigration
reform in the short term isn’t
necessarily a dangerous position
for the GOP either. After all,
another Republican who is much
less ambiguous in his support
of immigration reform, Lindsey
Graham, won a decisive victory in
South Carolina.
More importantly, the longterm health of the party is at
stake: Should the GOP use this
as a reason not to take action,
voters will remember who killed
immigration reform.
Many political analysts are
contending that Cantor’s defeat
was more of a referendum on
Cantor himself, calling him a
candidate who had lost touch with
his district. It’s also possible that
his district lost touch with the rest
of Virginia.
A map by The New York Times
of Virginia’s 7th Congressional
District shows that Cantor won
the more diverse counties near
Washington and lost the largely
white suburbs around Richmond.
Brat won in the less diverse counties
of Hanover and New Kent.
Itzel Martinez, a 20-year-old
DACA student living in Oxnard,
Calif., desperately wants health
insurance because she knows what
it means to be without it.
A kitchen accident she
suffered last year that resulted in
a trip to the emergency room to
stitch up her split lip set her farmworking parents back by $1,500.
To this day, they haven’t been able
to get a collection agency off their
back.
Martinez, one of
five
children, said that when she went
to the Ventura County Human
Services Agency a few months ago
to apply for Medi-Cal -- the state’s
name for the health insurance
program for low-income people
known as Medicaid in the rest of
the nation -- she was told that she
only qualified for restricted MediCal because of her DACA status.
Restricted Medi-Cal covers only
emergency and pregnancy-related
care and is given to most anyone
who applies for Medi-Cal.
Sacramento DACA student
Bernardina Garcia said she’s
been on tenterhooks for months
because she’s waiting to learn if
she’s approved for Medi-Cal. She
applied for it back in January
with help from a children’s health
care advocacy worker. The
21-year-old Sacramento State
student said she’s tired of trying
home remedies for her recurring
ear infection because they only
provide her temporary relief.
Martinez and Garcia are
among an estimated 125,000
young people between 15 and
30 years old in California who
became eligible for MediCal when they were granted
temporary legal presence and
work authorization under a 2012
presidential initiative known as
Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA).
A slew of challenges has
kept hundreds of thousands of
DACA students like Martinez
and Garcia from getting a coveted
Medi-Cal card. Obstacles include
onerous paperwork requirements,
ignorance among many county
eligibility workers that DACA
beneficiaries are eligible for statefunded Medi-Cal and the state’s
new consumer-oriented web
portal known as CalHEERS.
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