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Congress Launches Relentless Attacks on Immigrants in the U.S.
Anti-Immigrant Legislators Challenge Health Coverage for Vulnerable Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women


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NCLR is urging you to take action immediately to help secure the health of our nation’s children. Over the past few weeks, anti-immigrant legislators in the U.S. Congress are misrepresenting the issues, and attempting to undercut legal immigrants’ access to programs that address health, education, housing, and even hunger. Instead of fixing the broken immigration system when they had the chance, these legislators are pursuing a path that would harm immigrant families – taking health care away from children.

During the debate on the immigration bill, these legislators were claiming that their concern was with undocumented immigrants, not those here legally. But now they seek to prohibit legal immigrants families from accessing critical programs in times of need.

Their latest attack is an attempt to strip language from a key health bill that will provide access to care for legal immigrant children and pregnant women who desperately need access to health coverage.

For nearly a decade NCLR in partnership with many organizations has been working to restore equity for legal immigrant families, ensuring that they can access the Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), when they fall on hard times. These families were abandoned during welfare reform, when Congress decided to enact a five-year residency requirement for legal immigrants to access these programs, despite any need for health care.

In the U.S. House of Representatives, we achieved these goals (and more), when the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act (H.R. 3162) was introduced. Among other provisions beneficial to Latinos, it includes contains important language that would:

Restore a state option to provide access to Medicaid and SCHIP for legal immigrant children and pregnant women

Ensure more families could gain access to health care by providing more funding for language assistance
We need to protect the integrity of the CHAMP Act and the critical provisions that would protect legal immigrants. We urge you to call your representative immediately to say that you:


Support the CHAMP act, and the important components that make sure that Latino and immigrant families can get health care when they need it.
Oppose any amendments that would take away health care from Latino children in the U.S. and create new barriers to health coverage for American families, especially legal immigrant families.
To contact, Congress, call (202) 224-3121 and ask to speak to your Representative. To find out who your representatives are, you can plug in your zip code or refer to NCLR’s website: http://capwiz.com/nclr/dbq/officials/