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A class action lawsuit seeks better care for immigrants with physical disabilities or mental illness who were detained after trying to enter the country. Other disabled immigrants without legal status are also finding it difficult to get care.
Those seeking to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Tuesday鈥檚 recall election disagree with him on more than mask and vaccine mandates. The conservative candidates tend to favor free-market solutions over Newsom鈥檚 expansion of publicly funded health coverage.
Medical-legal partnerships in Montana, Colorado and elsewhere across the nation operate on the notion that fixing patients鈥 legal ills is a vital part of their health care.
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
In a suburb of Denver, a doctor runs a clinic that finds creative solutions to treat a large refugee and immigrant population, sometimes to the dismay of the medical establishment.
Food insecurity soared during the pandemic, including among unauthorized immigrants, who are not eligible for federally funded food stamps. California鈥檚 Democratic lawmakers want to expand the benefit to that population, but opponents cite the massive ongoing cost to the state.
Health care workers find it easy to empathize with Central American children after their painful journeys to the U.S.
A growing number of Mexican and Central American migrants are trying to cross into the U.S. at the southern border. Volunteers at one free clinic in Tijuana tend to the health needs of migrants waiting for their immigration cases to come up 鈥 and simply trying to survive in packed and dangerous encampments.
Some immigrant groups are closing the ethnic gap on COVID-19 shots. For many Kurdish Americans, their fears about vaccination are entangled with their experiences in refugee camps after fleeing Iraq.
The percentage of medical students who can鈥檛 find residencies is increasing every year. But as more graduates look for support, they might not realize that two organizations offering it are backed by anti-immigrant groups.
In his campaign, President Joe Biden promised to undo policies, particularly health policies, implemented by former President Donald Trump. Yet, despite immense executive power, reversing four years of action takes time and resources.
Many undocumented immigrants are essential workers at high risk of exposure to the virus 鈥 and the pandemic鈥檚 economic crash 鈥 with no direct access to federal financial lifelines available to U.S. citizens.
Inoculating the millions of undocumented workers who produce America鈥檚 agricultural bounty will be key to achieving herd immunity against covid-19. But garnering the trust of these workers is proving complicated, particularly in the South, where the last four years have been marked by workplace raids and anti-immigrant vitriol.
Congressman Steve Scalise claimed during a Fox News interview that President Joe Biden was allowing immigrants to 鈥渏ump the line鈥 ahead of Americans for vaccination. But the administration merely has said everyone should have access to the vaccine, regardless of immigration status, and get vaccinated when eligible.
Given the pandemic鈥檚 disproportionate hit on minority communities, two Democratic lawmakers are pushing Newsom to agree to offer health care to all unauthorized immigrants. They planned to unveil legislation Monday 鈥 and a new strategy to make it happen.
Donald Trump accepted his party's nomination to seek reelection for a second term as president in front of a partisan audience that appeared to largely lack masks and opt against social distancing.
Immigrant health workers help keep the U.S. health system afloat 鈥 and they鈥檙e dying of COVID-19 at high rates.
The Guardian and KHN release new figures showing that, among health care workers, a disproportionate number of immigrants and minorities have died.
There鈥檚 a theory now being embraced by President Donald Trump that the Supreme Court鈥檚 recent DACA decision makes it harder for a new president to undo the executive action of a predecessor. He cited it in a recent interview, saying that finding gave him the power to issue new health care and immigration plans. And some legal scholars disagree.
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