Report reveals staggering number of uninsured immigrants
In a recent report released by the Coalition, an astonishing number of immigrants in Illinois are uninsured and suffer disproportionately from serious illnesses, demonstrating the urgent need for an expansion of health care coverage in the state. Read the report...
“For this reason, we call on the State House to support the Governor’s Health Care Plan, ‘Illinois Covered,’” said ICIRR’s Executive Director, Joshua Hoyt. “The Governor’s plan would provide hundreds of thousands of Illinois immigrants access to affordable health insurance and help reduce the glaring inequalities in health care coverage in our state.” Read more...
In Wake of Failed Bill, Local Enforcement Measures May Prove Disastrous:
ICIRR Urges City of Waukegan to Revoke Proposal 287 (g)
Given the vacuum left by the failure of the Senate's immigration reform bill, individual cities are beginning to act independently to try to deal with our broken immigration system. In one such attempt, the City of Waukegan, Illinois, recently proposed an agreement that would allow local police officers to enforce federal immigration law. Yet ICIRR sees the proposed agreement— called 287(g)—between the City of Waukegan and federal immigration authorities as a recipe for disaster. It is a non-solution that would result in a community rife with unbridled fear, unreported crime, and racial division.
Read ICIRR's full statement. We encourage residents of Waukegan to contact the Mayor and their Aldermen to urge them to defeat this disastrous proposal.