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• Overview
• Current Advocacy
• Resources
• Announcements
• CPCA Staff Contact

Current as of August 25, 2010

OVERVIEW

California is home to the largest immigrant population in the United States. According to the 2006 American Community Survey, 9.9 million Californians are immigrants. The diversity of our state has been growing over many years. In 2000, California became a majority minority state where approximately 42 percent of the population was white, and the remainder a mix of Latino, Asian, African-American and other. By 2020, the California Budget Project estimates that Latino’s will be the largest racial population at 41 percent, and whites will constitute 37 percent of the population.

Community health centers are committed to serving the most medically vulnerable and hard to reach populations, which includes the immigrant population. Immigrants face unique barriers to accessing care including linguistic isolation, immigration status, and fear of government interactions. In 1996, these barriers were exacerbated with the passage of several federal legislative initiatives, including Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996; and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. For example, welfare law now grants states discretion to preserve or deny non-emergency Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to most legal immigrants. California has maintained the same level of coverage for most immigrant groups.

CURRENT ADVOCACY

• Immigration Reform
• Immigrant Children’s Health Improvement Act

RESOURCES

 

Websites

• American Immigration Lawyers Association Resource Guide
• AFL-CIO
• National Immigration Forum
• Reform Immigration for America
• Service Employees International Union
• Health Care for Immigrants- California, CPCA
• Refugee Programs Bureau, California Department of Social Services
• Office of Immigrant Assistance, California Office of the Attorney General
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc: State and Local Anti-Immigrant Initiatives
• Fast Facts - California Immigrant Policy Center
• Immigration Advocates Network
• Immigration Works USA
• Kaiser Family Foundation: Resources on Immigrants and Health Coverage
• National Immigration Law Center

Publications

Immigration Advocates Network - A study, "Raising the Floor for American Workers: The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform," by Dr. Ral Hinojosa-Ojeda, UCLA Associate Professor of Chicano and Chicana Studies, finding that legalization, along with a program that allows for future immigration based on the labor market, would create jobs, increase wages and generate more tax revenue (log-in required)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

No announcements at this time.

CPCA STAFF CONTACT

If you have any questions, or need more information, please contact Andie Martinez, Associate Director of Policy at 916-440-8170 ext. 1075 or amartinez@cpca.org.

 

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