Tag Archives: medical deportation
Ready to Leave with No Place to Go
by Shena Elrington, Staff Attorney Undocumented immigrants lack access to viable long-term care options. This is hardly surprising, given the surge in anti-immigrant sentiment, the serious budget crises facing federal, state and local governments and the piecemeal way in which … Continue reading
Filed under immigrant health, immigrant rights, news
(Not) Born in the USA
This post is by Macharia Edmonds, a summer intern with the Health Justice Program and a law student at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, IL. Too often in this country, the treatment of those not born in America … Continue reading
Filed under immigrant health, immigrant rights, legislation, medical deportation
Holding the United States Accountable for Medical Repatriation
On April 19, NYLPI’s Health Justice program joined the Seton Hall University School of Law in submitting a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the subject of involuntary medical repatriations of undocumented immigrants from hospitals. As we … Continue reading
Filed under immigrant health, immigrant rights, medical deportation
Balancing the Scales of Health Justice for Uninsured Immigrants
Advocates and service providers in New York are banding together to prevent the medical repatriation of uninsured immigrants, and to strike a balance to the inequitable treatment that uninsured immigrants receive in American hospitals. Continue reading
International Patient Dumping
A little before 1am on December 1, 1985, a pregnant woman who was about to give birth was taken by a friend to a hospital in San Pablo, California. Upon arrival, hospital staff refused to admit the woman because the … Continue reading
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