[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 13, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H235]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  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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