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  Growing isolation, financial challenges and disease burden during the Covid-19 pandemic threaten to worsen the mental health needs of the entire U.S. population. These challenges are heightened among immigrants with untreated chronic mental health conditions as they experience added psychological distress owing to harsh immigration policies and worsening structural barriers to health during the pandemic.

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  “If the virus doesn’t kill us, the stress and anxiety will.” Immigrants during Covid

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  The novel coronavirus pandemic has starkly revealed the vulnerabilities of low-wage immigrants, immigrant-led households, and immigrant communities to coronavirus infection, severe Covid-19 illness, and economic fallout from pandemic. This public health emergency compounds pre-existing social inequalities and resulting health inequities associated with immigrant status and immigration policy priorities. Structural barriers to health care access and… Read more

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  Immigrants, Health Inequities, and Social Citizenship in Covid-19 Response and Recovery

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  Last week, the Department of Homeland Security  announced the final public charge rule, which revises the interpretation of “public charge” in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the Final Rule, DHS may find applicants ineligible for a visa for admission to the U.S. or a green card granting legal permanent resident status if it determines… Read more

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  The Public Charge Rule Is a Eugenic Policy

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  Another June. Another public outcry about cruelty as policy harming migrants in United States custody. This summer, the photo of a drowned family, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter, Valeria, of El Salvador, shocks the conscience. Reporters are documenting the inhumane conditions in a Border Patrol facility where hundreds of children have been held. How should our field respond?

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  From Outcry to Solidarity with Migrants: What Is the Good We Can Do?

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  Hastings President, Mildred Solomon, applauds University of Pennsylvania bioethicists and other bioethics leaders for drafting a letter of historic importance, intended to assist lawyers representing immigrant children being abused and denied their basic human rights at the U.S. border. Act now and sign the letter by 2 pm, June 25.

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  Hastings President Calls on Bioethicists to Sign Letter to Flores Counsel

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  The federal government’s proposed rule to disqualify families from public housing if any member is undocumented will harm children, families, and cities.

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  Forced from Home: Evicting Immigrants from Public Housing Harms Children’s Health

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  On May 7, New York City officials unveiled details of NYC Care, a new  program in the nation’s largest public health system that aims to improve health care access for about 300,000 low-income New Yorkers who are ineligible for insurance because of their immigration status. The initiative, announced in January, reflects lessons from a 2016-2017… Read more

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  New York City Initiative to Cover the Uninsured Reflects Hastings Research, Recommendations

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  Immigrants and their families in the United States and migrants who seek asylum in this country face accelerating threats and harms to their health because of the Trump administration’s immigration priorities. A new Hastings Center project, supported by the Open Society Foundations Public Health Program, is exploring how health systems should counter these accelerating threats. Hastings Center… Read more

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  New Project: Countering the Rising Threats to Immigrant Health

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  A long-anticipated policy change proposed by the Trump administration that would count the use of many federally-subsidized programs against immigrants currently eligible to use them threatens public health and would undermine ethical practice in health professions and systems. The policy would expand the definition of a public charge, someone likely to become dependent on government… Read more

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  Immigrant Health and the Moral Scandal of the “Public Charge” Rule

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  Amid the volume of coverage and commentary on the politics of immigration and the consequences of crackdowns and criminalization, here is a selection of recent work – analysis, personal essay, fiction, mixed-media – that can spark the moral imagination.

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  Beyond Breaking News: Ways of Seeing Migrants and Their Children

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