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Migrants often can't access US health care until they are critically ill – here are some of the barriers they face

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Friday, June 23, 2023
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“Can you tell me about cancer care for the undocumented?” I asked Henry during an interview.

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  • “Can you tell me about cancer care for the undocumented?” I asked Henry during an interview.
  • He was a doctor who volunteered his time at a community-based clinic designed exclusively for low-income undocumented migrants.
  • That’s what happens.” As a medical sociologist and expert in health care disparities between noncitizens and citizens, my research explores the many ways that health care and immigration collide.
  • Though some states are working to challenge this, undocumented migrants remain one of the largest uninsured populations in the country.
  • For low-income undocumented migrants, navigating the U.S. health care system involves a number of risks, challenges and consequences that often make them sicker.

Chilling effects: Self-denied care

    • Fearing that health practitioners will out them for their legal status, many migrants decide to forego seeking care altogether.
    • According to the National Immigration Law Center, most health care providers are not obligated to ask about their patients’ legal status.
    • Legally, the institutions of health care and immigration are supposed to operate separately, but this could change.
    • Though migrants will have the option to “decline to answer,” questions about legal status will likely be enough to deter many from seeking care.

Why IDs matter: Waiting for care

    • Rodney’s case was one of many that emerged in my study about how low-income undocumented migrants navigate today’s health care system.
    • When undocumented migrants cannot provide an ID, they are often denied care and begin a trajectory of exacerbated suffering.
    • For some, this means having their long-term care needs relegated to private, medically unaccredited personal care homes.
    • Under the current system, emergency care becomes possible for low-income undocumented migrants without an ID only after their bodies fail.
    • And now, I’m waiting to die.” Health practitioners vow to “do no harm,” but when it comes to immigrant health care, the system is set up in way that legally inhibits them from “doing good.”

Medical deportation: Repatriated by hospitals

    • While the term “deportation” might suggest involvement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, border patrol officials are not involved in medical deportation.
    • Hospitals facilitate medical deportation without any government oversight.
    • The 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act requires hospitals to treat everyone – citizens and noncitizens – in emergency cases.
    • After patients are stabilized, the law also requires hospitals to transfer or discharge patients to “appropriate” medical facilities.

WES Celebrates Passage of Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act in U.S. Congress

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
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NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This week Congress passed the Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act.

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  • NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This week Congress passed the Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act.
  • The Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act seeks to study the factors driving this underemployment, including limited recognition of credentials, barriers to occupational licensing, and uneven access to adult education and workforce development programs.
  • WES is proud to have worked with our partners to support the passage of the Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act.
  • The bipartisan passage of the Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act highlights the enormous potential for immigrants and refugees to strengthen the American workforce and bolster the economy.

The Education Civil Rights Alliance and Lieff Cabraser File Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting Race-Conscious Admissions To Ensure Robust Talent Competition in Harvard and UNC Cases

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Monday, August 1, 2022
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Prominent plaintiffs law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and the Education Civil Rights Alliance (ECRA) filed a friend-of-court brief today on behalf of youth advocates and experts in educational access.

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  • Prominent plaintiffs law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and the Education Civil Rights Alliance (ECRA) filed a friend-of-court brief today on behalf of youth advocates and experts in educational access.
  • This brief contributes to the records of two cases currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, No.
  • 19-2005 (U.S. March 1, 2021) and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, et al., No.
  • Amici call upon the Supreme Court to affirm the decisions of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the Middle District of North Carolina.

AHF Endorses Sen. Sanders’ New ‘Medicare for All Act’

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Friday, May 13, 2022
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation ( AHF ) joined a broad coalition of progressive organizations and legislators to celebrate and endorse the introduction of a bill which would enact the Medicare For All Act of 2022.

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  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation ( AHF ) joined a broad coalition of progressive organizations and legislators to celebrate and endorse the introduction of a bill which would enact the Medicare For All Act of 2022.
  • The proposed legislation , led by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), is similar to the Medicare For All Act of 2019.
  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation heartily endorses Senator Sanders reintroduction of a Medicare For All bill and thank him for introducing this updated version of such critical, potentially lifesaving legislation, said Michael Weinstein, President of AHF.
  • The Medicare for All bill would guarantee health care as a human right for anyone living in the United States.

Goldberg Kohn Names David Chizewer as Chair of Litigation Practice Group

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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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Goldberg Kohn Ltd. announced today that it has named David Chizewer as chair of its litigation practice group.

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  • Goldberg Kohn Ltd. announced today that it has named David Chizewer as chair of its litigation practice group.
  • Chizewer succeeds Ken Ulrich , who completed his highly productive six-year term as the practice leader.
  • Chizewer takes the helm of one of the nation's most impactful litigation practices.
  • For more information on Chizewer or the Goldberg Kohn litigation team's track record of success, please visit www.goldbergkohn.com
    Since 1976, Goldberg Kohn has grown to become one of the nation's most respected midsize law firms.