Healthcare Advocates Commit to Helping Oregon's Uninsured Latino Families

Healthcare Advocates Commit to Helping Oregon's Uninsured Latino Families

Portland, Ore.-- Last night, CAUSA, Oregon's Immigrant Rights Coalition, and the Oregon Latino Health Coalition (OLHC) hosted a Latino Health Policy Assembly at the First Unitarian Church in Downtown Portland. The purpose of the assembly was to bring together policy makers, healthcare advocates and legislators to discuss strategies to deal with uninsured Latino Families in Oregon. Over 100 people attended.
Included in the issues discussed was potential legislation and administrative remedies that would:

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Children's March & Rally at the Oregon State Capitol to Highlight Need for Immigration Reform

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 1, 2010

Contact:
Francisco Lopez, Executive Director: (503) 269-5694
Erik Sorensen, Communications Director: (503) 488-0263

Children's March & Rally at the Oregon State Capitol to highlight Need for Immigration Reform

Salem, Ore.-- Over the last couple months, immigration restrictionists and right-wing politicians in Congress have been calling for a change in the 14th Amendment eliminating citizenship to babies born on United States soil. Instead of promoting immigration reform that would overhaul a severely flawed and broken system, they see it politically opportune to deny citizenship and promote deportation of infants and children.

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution states that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. That no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

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Study: Kids Hurt by Immigration Raids

By OSKAR GARCIA

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Children whose parents are arrested in immigration raids face mental health problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety and depression, according to a study released Wednesday.

Researchers visited three cities where officials arrested 900 suspected illegal immigrants in workplace raids over the past year, causing 500 children to abruptly lose contact with their mother, father or both parents.

That left them with a combination of unstable supervision, stress, emotional trauma and material needs that can lead to mental health disorders, according to the study.

"Those children were born in America, and we forgot about their rights during the raids, because they were left parentless," said Steve Joel, superintendent of Grand Island Public Schools, which worked to get parents to keep their children in school following a December raid at the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant. >>continue

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