Thread: Report: Illegal immigrant hired as Obamacare ‘navigator’

Report: Illegal immigrant hired as Obamacare ‘navigator’

4:09 PM 10/15/2013
Caroline May
Political Reporter

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An illegal immigrant in New York is serving as an Obamacare navigator, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, a non-profit limited immigration group.

According to a CIS report, Maria Marroquin — identified as an illegal immigrant as recently as March 2013 — from Peru is also the “Health Education Organizer” for the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY).

ROC-NY is listed as a subcontractor for the “New York Health Benefit Exchange: In-Person Assistors and Navigators.”

“IPA/Navigators will provide in person application assistance to individuals, families and small businesses and their employees at initial enrollment and when renewing coverage. IPA/Navigators remove barriers to the application process by providing assistance in multiple languages, in community based settings during non-traditional hours such as evenings and weekends,” The New York health care exchange explains.

When reached by The Daily Caller for comment Marroquin would not speak about her immigration status or Obamacare position, instead telling TheDC she would “call back.”

Multiple attempts to reach Marroquin after the fact were unsuccessful. She reportedly applied for President Obama’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” program in September 2012.

Monday, Michael Volpe – writing for TheDC – highlighted another Obamacare outreach worker in Lawrence, Kansas with an outstanding arrest warrant.

Rosilyn Wells was certified to assist Obamacare signups as well — thanks to an HHS grant — despite a 2003 bankruptcy, a 2007 civil charge from Midwest Checkrite, and the aforementioned outstanding arrest warrant.

As Volpe pointed out, the House Oversight Committee recently issued a report highlighting the personal security risks involved with handing over sensitive consumer information to such workers — who are not required to undergo background checks.

“[T]he main concern for consumers is the heightened risk of identity theft and financial loss from a poorly managed outreach campaign,” the Oversight Committee report read. “Navigators and Assisters will come into contact with a plethora of personally identifiable information (PII), including an applicant’s Social Security number, date of birth and income, as well as the PII of everyone in an applicant’s household.”

James R. Edwards Jr., a CIS fellow and the author of the report on Marroquin explained to TheDC that the main concern with having an undocumented immigrant as a navigator is identity theft.

“If you are illegally present then you might be inclined to use some of those folks who you are supposedly helping, use their information for your own or somebody else’s benefit,” Edwards explained to TheDC.
A spokesperson for HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/15/re...are-navigator/

Looks like she was in Chicago in March of 2013. Was she a government paid "organizer" there also?
Illegal Alien Heads Obamacare Navigator Program in NYC

By James R. Edwards Jr.,
October 15, 2013

Now that the Obamacare health insurance "exchanges" are live, experiencing technical difficulties, and facing growing scrutiny for risking Americans' privacy, Americans concerned about just where their hard-earned tax dollars are going might want to know more about Obamacare "navigators." Hint: They don't carry maps and compasses, and they aren't carefully vetted government agents, though their groups are collecting millions in taxpayer money. Some of the navigators are illegal aliens themselves.



The state of New York has designated the labor union front group Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, or ROC-NY, as one of its navigator groups — basically authorized and paid-for community organizing for Obamacare. And guess who ROC-NY's lead is for its health program? Maria Marroquin, an illegal alien from Peru who's a DREAM activist. It would be hard to make up something this outrageous.

Marroquin practices the political tactics of left-wing extremists, flouting her illegal immigration status before cowed law enforcers and politicians. She has signed up for the end-run DACA amnesty program to launder her status, Associated Press reported. Obama's DACA invigorated Marroquin and her ilk to go forth and break the law even more.

"This [DACA] just showed the power that we have and the power of organizing to create some sort of change," said Maria Marroquin, 25, a pre-law student at Dominican University near Chicago who came to the U.S. illegally from Peru when she was 13.Marroquin founded Dream Activist Pennsylvania in 2009 and was one of seven young people arrested when they sat down in a downtown Atlanta street in April 2011 as an act of civil disobedience.

Marroquin's DREAM Activist Pennsylvania thumbs its nose at the rule of law on which American government and society rest. The group describes its position: "We reject society's notion of a model immigrant and the demand for cultural assimilation." Obamacare's implementers declined to check the backgrounds of prospective navigators, regardless of the obvious potential for crime, fraud, and abuse. So, even an illegal alien radical has become an Obamacare navigator.

It's not just illegal or criminal aliens who pose a threat to privacy and security. Lawrence, Kansas's only navigator,Rosilyn Wells, has an outstanding warrant out for her arrest. But you can bet Marroquin, who has an arrest record of her own, isn't the only illegal alien to obtain this role. What especially compelling temptations will illegal alien navigators face when opportunities present themselves: steal someone's identity, tap into their Social Security or savings? The hiring of navigators and their assistants has been rushed, diffuse, and even politically suspicious.

With flagrant lawbreakers serving as Obamacare navigators, particularly foreign criminals like Marroquin, congressional inquiries into navigator organizations become all the more important. Navigators sit in a position to prey upon unsuspecting people, who trustingly share their sensitive personal information. The Marroquins and Wellses of the navigator world could commit fraud, financial or identity theft, or other crimes against their victims seeking help to enroll in health care. The causes of concern over this subjecting of innocent victims to unvetted potential predators are well-founded. That's why more than a quarter of the states have taken steps to help rein in the mess the federal health law has wrought.

The U.S. House Oversight Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee have launched investigations, andstate attorneys general have likewise sounded the alarm. Energy and Commerce sent oversight letters to some of the 100-plus navigator organizations collecting $67 million. In its story on Ms. Wells, The Daily Caller cited one congressional committee's findings of the risk exposure to citizens:

"[T]he main concern for consumers is the heightened risk of identity theft and financial loss from a poorly managed outreach campaign," the Oversight Committee report said. "Navigators and Assisters will come into contact with a plethora of personally identifiable information (PII), including an applicant's Social Security number, date of birth and income, as well as the PII of everyone in an applicant’s household."

Conceivably, navigators could facilitate identity theft and fraud to benefit illegal aliens. They could very well steal from Americans and sell to illegal aliens. The risk for wholesale crime through the exchange navigator scheme is a clear and present danger. Americans who are assigned to a navigator should be on their guard.
http://cis.org/edwards/illegal-alien...or-program-nyc

Activists Protest Deportations, As Immigrants Released Amid Budget Cuts

March 1, 2013 9:36 AM

CHICAGO (CBS) – In west suburban Broadview, a weekly protest and prayer vigil outside the federal immigration detention center took on added significance Friday morning.

WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports the Obama administration released hundreds of low-risk undocumented immigrants this week, ahead of the automatic federal budget cuts required by an obscure process known as sequestration.

The government did that because it said it could not afford to house the low-risk immigrants because of the looming cuts set to go into effect on Friday.

The undocumented immigrants still must wear electronic monitoring devices on their ankles, and deportation proceedings against them will continue.

That’s why 25-year old Chicago area college student Maria Marroquin, who is also an undocumented immigrant from Peru, said the release of the immigrants “still doesn’t change anything.”

“We still have hundreds of thousands of people getting deported by this administration that supposedly supports immigrants,” Marroquin said.
She said she can no longer stay in the shadows.

“I decided that I couldn’t live that way any longer. I needed to come out of the shadows, I needed to share my story with people so they could understand that it’s not just numbers, that it’s actual human beings who are being put in this situation,” she said.

She said her parents are both afraid to follow her lead. The family has been in the United States for 13 years, she said, and she considers this country to be her home.

Marroquin said President Barack Obama professes to be for immigrants, but that thousands of undocumented immigrants a year are returned to their countries of origin.

“These unjust and unfair policies, we need to keep protesting them; and by coming out, people are doing just that,” she said.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/03/...d-budget-cuts/

Moved from General to News

Sir Scam~a~Lot likes to rub it in

First article added to the HP
http://www.alipac.us/content.php?r=2...91navigator%92

Yep Yep

I see bank accounts being cleared out in your future and heading south of the border... Aaaaw Maaaaan

as well as all your vital information setting Americans up for Identity Theft

this Illegal Alien got the Racketeering Job of a Life Time Gig