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Amid heckling from immigration activists at a Chicago campaign event to celebrate his granting temporary amnesty to an estimated 5 million people in the United States illegally, a perturbed President Obama explained: “But what you're not paying attention to is the fact that I just took action to change the law.” Oops. Remember that Obama’s claim for authority to grant the temporary pardon to illegal immigrants is based on an argument that he is not changing the law, but simply prioritizing the enforcement of it Perhaps sensing that he had given away too much, Obama quickly qualified his boast: “The way the change in the law works is that we're reprioritizing how we enforce our immigration laws generally." Gotcha. This pretty well encapsulates the problem for a president who wants immigration activists to be grateful for a legacy-making move, but doesn’t want to spook the rest of the country with worries that he is birthing new laws by caesarian section.

Temporary amnesty recipients get benefits, exempt from ObamaCare - WaPo: “Under President Obama's new program to protect millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, many of those affected will be eligible to receive Social Security, Medicare and a wide array of other federal benefits, a White House official confirmed… ‘If they pay in, they can draw,’ White House spokesman Shawn Turner said by email. He noted, however, that the estimated 5 million immigrants granted protection from deportation will not be eligible for other federal benefits, such as student financial aid, food stamps and housing subsidies. Nor are they eligible to purchase health insurance through the federal health care exchange under the Affordable Care Act.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/25/under-obamas-immigration-action-many-of-those-protected-from-deportation-will-also-be-eligible-for-social-security-medicare-and-other-benefits/