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Policy Preview: The State of Play of Immigration Reform in Congress (And in the States!) November 18, 2015 Housekeeping Items Access the Help Desk: Select the Help option in the toolbar at the top of your GoToWebinar navigation panel.

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Policy Preview:

The State of Play of Immigration Reform in Congress (And in the States!)

November 18, 2015

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Stephanie Powers

Senior Director for Policy and Partnerships Council on Foundations

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Felicia Escobar

Special Assistant to the President for Immigration Policy The White House | Domestic Policy Council

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Daranee Petsod

President Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

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Marielena Hincapié

Executive Director National Immigration Law Center

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Cathy Cha

Program Director, Immigrant Rights Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

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Beatriz Solis, MPH, Ph.D.

Director, Healthy Communities South Region The California Endowment

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This Work is Vital

Daranee Petsod

President Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

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DEMOGRAPHIC IMPERATIVE

 85% of immigrant families have mixed immigration

status

 First- and second-generation immigrants (41 million)

account for I in 4 U.S. residents

 Latinos and Asians constitute 31% of K-12 public school

students

 21% of children in immigrant families live in poverty;

49% are low income

 Immigrants and their children are projected to become

37% of the U.S. population by 2050 and account for 82% of the overall growth

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ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE

 Workers: Immigrants constitute 11% of the total

population but 20% of low-wage workers

 Entrepreneurs: Immigrants made up 18% of business

  • wners in 2013 and accounted for 28.5% of all new

entrepreneurs in 2015

 Taxpayers: Unauthorized immigrants paid $11.8 billion in

state and local taxes in 2012

 Consumers: Latinos and Asians in 2012 accounted for

nearly $2 trillion of the nation’s total purchasing power

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State of Play of Immigration Reform

Marielena Hincapié

Executive Director National Immigration Law Center

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Going to the Supreme Court!

  • Most significant immigration

case going to SCOTUS

  • 5 million US citizen children are

the direct beneficiaries

  • Legal issues decided will have

long-term impact

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Landscape

  • Supreme Court Battle
  • Federal Legislative

On defense

  • State & Local

Building on Victories Major Threats Staying on Offense

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Congressional Gridlock

  • Presidential elections and growing anti-immigrant

rhetoric

  • Backlash: focus Sanctuary Cities
  • Impact of Paris attacks

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Building on Our Victories

  • Following 2012 elections, a landmark year for pro-immigrant measures.
  • Control of state legislatures shifted in 2014, with threats to unravel inclusive policies.
  • Groundwork was successful in defeating virtually all significant anti-immigrant proposals

this year.

  • Inclusive state policies were implemented and gained ground.
  • Local governments also advanced inclusive policies.
  • But threats continue at federal, state and local levels.

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Recent Immigrant Rights Victories

  • Driver’s Licenses

 Hawaii & Delaware driver’s licenses for all  Nebraska driver’s licenses for DACA grantees (50th state)

  • Tuition Equity, Scholarships, Financial Aid

 Oregon & Utah financial aid/scholarships  Connecticut improves tuition equity policy

  • Professional Licenses

 Florida, New York, Illinois, Nevada

  • Municipal Ids +

 Johnson County (IA); Hartford (CT); Newark (NJ)  New York City (muni ids + right to counsel, health care)

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Major Threats

  • Texas: Denial of birth certificates
  • Louisiana: Denial of marriage certificates
  • North Carolina: Anti-sanctuary law and prohibits acceptance of consular

IDs

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Staying on Offense 2015-16

  • Driver’s Licenses and Municipal IDs
  • Tuition Equity, Scholarships, Financial Aid
  • Health Care expansions
  • Professional Licenses
  • Workers’ rights
  • Anti-racial profiling, community trust, and criminal justice reforms
  • Right to counsel
  • Support for legal assistance

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California!

  • Over 533,000 “AB 60” driver’s licenses since January
  • Health care for all kids, regardless of status, effective next year
  • Professional licenses regardless of status, by Jan 1, 2016
  • Anti-racial profiling, criminal justice reforms, anti-discrimination
  • Workers’ rights – penalties for violating e-verify rules, wage theft
  • Facilitating access to immigration relief - $15 million to legal services for

naturalization and deferred action; Office of Immigrant Integration; improve access to SIJS and U status

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Resources

 National Immigration Law Center: www.nilc.org  Executive Action: http://nilc.org/relief.html  Texas v. U.S. & the Supreme Court  Timeline: http://nilc.org/TexasvUSTimeline.html  Other Resources: http://nilc.org/TXvUSlitigation.html Marielena Hincapie, Esq. National Immigration Law Center Executive Director: hincapie@nilc.org // 213-674-2812

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Advocacy and Immigration Reform

Cathy Cha

Program Director, Immigrant Rights Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

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Why Support Advocacy?

  • It’s Legal
  • Impact
  • Export State Policy to Other Parts of U.S.
  • Change National Debate
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Policy Advances for Undocumented Students (“Dreamers”)

  • In-State Tuition
  • Access to Public and Private Financial Aid
  • DACA (national)
  • Driver’s Licenses
  • Professional Licensing
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Movement Building toward Health4All

Beatriz Solis, MPH, Ph.D.

Director, Healthy Communities South Region The California Endowment

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“The California Endowment’s mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.”

The California Endowment

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  • Del Norte and ATL
  • South Sacramento
  • Richmond
  • East Oakland
  • Southwest/East Merced County
  • East Salinas
  • Central/West Fresno
  • South Kern
  • Boyle Heights
  • Central Long Beach
  • South Los Angeles
  • Central Santa Ana
  • Eastern Coachella Valley
  • City Heights

BHC: 10 Year Investment in Community Change

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Transformative Policies School Climate School Wellness Comprehensive Supports Food Environment and Food Systems Land-Use Planning and Anti-Displacement Community and Economic Development Environmental Health and Justice Systems that Restore and Heal Healthy Youth Opportunities Public Health Coverage, Care and Community Prevention Health Care Services

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Backdrop

  • CA is home to 2.7 million

undocumented residents

  • Large insurance coverage

gaps exist between undocumented (42%) and

  • ther Californians (85%)
  • About 1.5 million immigrants

will remain uninsured due to immigration status in 2019 (does no include potential impact of admin relief)

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Statewide Data

  • Polling data
  • Issue and population

analysis

– USC Center for Immigrant Integration – UCLA Dream Resource Center – UC Berkeley Labor Center – Health Access

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Statewide Data

  • 71% currently need access to a doctor,

but 53% have not seen a doctor in over a year

  • 50% delayed getting the medical care

they needed. Of those, 96% reported main reason was cost or lack of health insurance

  • 74% resort to band-aid care for services,

such as: emergency Medi-Cal, public hospitals, and community or county health clinics

Uninsured Immigrant Youth and Access to Health Care

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BHC Site Data

  • Undocumented represent

13% of the population across the BHC sites, almost double the share across California

  • 38% of the unauthorized,

working age population has some form of health insurance coverage across the BHC sites

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Communications

  • Issue reframing
  • Focusing messaging
  • Earned and paid media

– TV, radio, & print

  • Electronic
  • utreach/social media
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Communications

We are California #Health4All

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Organizing & Mobilizing

  • Supporting and

building capacity of BHC sites

  • Coalition and network

building

  • Strategic regional

tables

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Policy Opportunities

  • Admin relief: DACA & DAPA

to provide temporary relief. In CA, eligible for state Medi- Cal.

  • CA SB 4: would declare that

all Californians, regardless of immigration status, have access to affordable health coverage and care.

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Local Health4All Successes

  • When all the above pieces

align, change happens!

  • In the past 3-4 years, 47

California counties have made funding available (to various levels) to provide a health home to undocumented immigrants.

  • Continuing local advocacy

in the remaining 11 counties

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Statewide Health4All Success

TCE Strategy:

  • Multicultural media
  • Outreach & enrollment

– School partners – Regional & local enrollment partners (grassroots mobilization) – California Coverage and Health Initiatives – Health Consumer Alliance

  • Advocacy

– CA state Department of Health Care Services – to maximize continuity of care

In Oct 2015, Health4All Kids signed into law!

  • Allocates new funding to cover all low-income children (up to 19 years
  • ld) through Medi-Cal, regardless of immigration status
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Empowerment

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

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Contact Information

Beatriz Solis, MPH, Ph.D. Program Director, Healthy Communities South Region The California Endowment bsolis@calendow.org

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Panel Discussion and Open Lines for Q & A

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Resources Check out the Council’s General Advocacy Toolkit at www.cof.org/resource/advocacy-toolkit

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To continue the conversation, share perspectives and strategies, and connect with colleagues – head over to the Philanthropy Exchange at www.exchange.cof.org To sign up for our Washington Snapshot newsletter, e-mail govt@cof.org

Resources

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Contact Us

  • Stephanie Powers: stephanie.powers@cof.org
  • Felicia Escobar: Felicia_Escobar@who.eop.gov
  • Daranee Petsod: daranee@gcir.org
  • Marielena Hincapié: hincapie@nilc.org
  • Beatriz Solis: BSolis@Calendow.org
  • Cathy Cha: Cathy@haasjr.org
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Public Policy Guidance and Technical Assistance

Legislative Branch Sue Santa – Sr. Vice President of Public Policy and Legal Affairs sants@cof.org Executive Branch Stephanie Powers – Sr. Director for Policy and Partnerships powes@cof.org