Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is being joined by 15 other states in a legal action against the Biden administration’s rule expanding taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to include Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.
The lawsuit argues that this move is unlawful and places significant burdens on states, which would be required to pay for the healthcare costs of illegal immigrants. States like Missouri would be forced to pay hundreds of millions in additional costs, according to the lawsuit, which also includes attorneys general from Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Virginia as plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs lay out a series of arguments in the lawsuit. For starters, they claim the Biden administration’s expansion…
