President Biden is expanding Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act eligibility to include migrants who have been in the country illegally since childhood.
Biden's order will allow Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program participants to qualify for government health insurance plans.
"When President Obama and I created the DACA program, we knew it would transform lives and it has. Bringing stability and possibility to hundreds of thousands of young people known as Dreamers, brought to America's children. This country is the only home they've ever known," Biden said in a Thursday video.
He continued, "So today, my administration is announcing our plan to expand health coverage for doctor recipients by allowing them to enroll in a plan through the Affordable Care Act or through Medicaid. Health care should be a right, not a privilege."
The change will open up government-funded health care to hundreds of thousands of migrants who were illicitly brought to the U.S. as children.
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