University of California, Berkeley releases report debunking myths about immigration, health

“The University of California, Berkeley, released a landmark report on Monday providing data that suggest immigrants, particularly of Latin American origin, significantly contribute to the work force but are harmed by lack of health care coverage.

This comes just days before the U.S. Congress failed to override President George W. Bush’s veto of SCHIP, a health insurance plan to cover low-income children as well as undocumented immigrants.

The University of California, Los Angeles, and UC Berkeley schools of public health, the UC’s office of the President and the Health Initiative of the Americas are the three agencies that conducted the research for “Migration, Health and Work: The Facts Behind the Myths,” using U.S. census data and with financial assistance from the California Endowment and Mexico’s Ministry of Health.”*

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