Mar 4, 2025
The Trump administration announced it would require some undocumented immigrants to register with the federal government. Here’s what we know so far (as of March 4, 2025).
New Policies Strengthen Language Access Protections in Health
Ben D’Avanzo and Gabrielle Lessard
Apr 30, 2024
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil rights (OCR) has posted its finalized regulation updating Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as the Health Care Rights Law. The final rule...
Bipartisan Language Access Developments in Congress Pave the Way for Change
Ben D’Avanzo
Nov 6, 2023
In August, NILC documented the dire need to address health disparities through our report, Expanding Health Care Access for Individuals with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). In the past month, two bipartisan bills have been introduced in...
What to Know About the Biden Administration’s Proposed Restoration of DACA Recipients’ Access to Affordable Care Act Programs
Gabrielle Lessard
May 5, 2023
The senseless exclusion of immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage is finally ending. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a proposed rule that would...
Congress Must Act to Prevent 300K DACA Recipients from Losing Health Care
Ben D’Avanzo
Nov 30, 2022
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has been a critical tool for immigrant youth in providing some level of stability, accessing education, and facilitating the ability to provide for themselves and their family. But...
Sep 9, 2021
In the coming months, Congress will have the opportunity to rectify a decades-old injustice and take a big step toward achieving racial equity by passing the LIFT the BAR Act (full name: Lifting Immigrant Families through Benefits Access...
Emergency COVID Grants Are Now Available to Immigrant Students
Sarah Kim Pak
May 27, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently finalized new federal regulations and accompanying frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) guidance that remove the Trump administration’s unfair and unlawful restrictions denying undocumented and other...
Answers to Common Questions about Immigrants’ Access to the COVID-19 Vaccines
Ben D’Avanzo
Apr 12, 2021
This article provides answers to common questions regarding immigrant access to COVID-19 vaccines. It addresses information related to documentation requirements, data privacy, eligibility, cost, protected spaces, and rights...
Next Senate COVID-19 Bill Must Include 5 Key Immigrant-Inclusive Provisions of House HEROES Act
Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec
May 28, 2020
When the U.S. Senate returns from recess in early June, your senators will have yet another opportunity to provide crucial relief to people in immigrant communities who, unacceptably, have been left out of the COVID-19 relief bills passed so...
To Ensure Collective Health and Safety, Federal Packages for COVID-19 Relief Must Include Immigrant Communities
Holly Straut-Eppsteiner
Apr 21, 2020
The COVID-19 public health crisis has demonstrated how our health and well-being — everyone’s — are interconnected. Congress has passed relief packages that help many Americans access health care, paid leave, and economic support, but...
Immigrants in Low-Wage Frontline Jobs Need COVID-19 Protections Now
Holly Straut-Eppsteiner
Apr 10, 2020
Across the United States, workers doing essential jobs continue reporting to them, keeping grocery shelves stocked and stores sanitized, laboring at construction sites, preparing and delivering packages to our doors, collecting trash and...
COVID-19 Doesn’t Discriminate — Neither Should Congress’s Response
Avideh Moussavian and Manar Waheed
Apr 2, 2020
Congress’s third bill addressing the impacts of COVID-19, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, was a necessary attempt to respond to this public health crisis, but its exclusion of immigrant communities is downright...
Trump’s Public Charge Rule Created Harm Even Before It Was Implemented
Holly Straut-Eppsteiner
Mar 2, 2020
In September 2018, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed a new set of regulations that would make drastic changes to determinations regarding which immigrants are eligible to be admitted as lawful permanent residents in the...
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