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2:35 PM Wed, Feb 04, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Laura Isensee E-mail News tips
President Barack Obama got a win today on health care, as the House decided to extend health insurance to 4 million uninsured children. (In Texas, that will be almost half a million children.)
The bill, which Obama is expected to sign into law today, is considered a first step towards Obama's promise of health care reform. (Maybe it helps ease the blow after Tom Daschle stepped out of the running for Secretary of Health and Human Services, too.)
But is this bill also a step towards immigration reform, as some immigration advocacy groups see it?
Under the bill, states have the option to cover legal immigrant children and pregnant women who have been in the country less than five years. (That's a provision from Texas' own Gene Green, D-Houston.)
In a release, the Immigration Policy Center called the bill a "breath of fresh air" and that "the next stop is common sense immigration reform."
Do these two issues really go so hand-in-hand?
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This is a good sign, first because they are moving on swiftly with their agenda, second the implication here is that more immigrant friendly measures are being looked at.
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