California Immigrant Policy Center

Mendelson says the veto comes as immigrants face uncertainty over new federal public charge rules, which are used to determine green card qualifications based on their use of public benefits.

Benjamin Chao with the California Immigrant Policy Center says Newsom's veto

just reinforces that message from the Trump administration that if you're not born here, you have to go through more red tape.

The new rules took effect last week, giving immigration officials more discretion to consider public benefits in some immigration cases.

Today, we present panel one, the impact of HR1.

Our panelists are Ben Avey of WellSpace Health, Tam Ma of the UC Office of the President, Katie Rodriguez of the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, Christine Smith of Health Access California, and Josh Stalick of the California Immigrant Policy Center.

The panel was moderated by regular Capital Weekly host, Rich Eisen.

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Like how can I get them to the doctor? It's not, Did everyone fill out their work requirements? Did I figure out this six month, you know, re-enrollment form? There's so many different barriers that feel designed for people to lose healthcare.

And, you know, I think that the thing that keeps me up at night is like, how do we prevent as many people from falling through the cracks as possible? And how do we keep as many people on their health insurance as possible? So that when someone does have an issue that they can get, you know, affordable, accessible healthcare in a way from someone that, you know, is culturally competent and meets their needs in a place that's close to them, things like that, that, you know, I want to keep making sure as many people keep getting coverage as possible.

Hi, Josh Dalek from the California immigrant policy center or CIPC at CIPC.

What keeps us up at night in particular is the concerns about immigrants, Californians access to Medi-Cal in 2024, the state had really notched like a national milestone in, getting as close as it had come to universal access or universal coverage for its residents, regardless of immigration status.