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Article: Debate over Immigrant Health Care heats up in New Mexico. (News).
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- Borderlines
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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A developing trend toward limiting illegal immigrants' access to health services, particularly in Texas and New Mexico, has health care professionals and immigrant rights activists in those states worried. They argue that recent policies and legal interpretations threaten to deny often-crucial medical care to some of the most marginalized members of their communities. The issue has sparked a heated debate not just in New Mexico but across the country, pitting concerns with legal requirements and hospital finances against issues of community health and ethics.
The University of New Mexico (UNM) Hospital is the focus of the controversy in that state. Recently the ...