Chicago Latino consultants to research the sequence ‘Growing older within the shadows: A disaster of older undocumented staff awaits Illinois’ in panel dialogue

For a number of months, the Chicago Tribune and Injustice Watch teamed as much as report on the challenges going through Illinois’ getting older undocumented inhabitants in a four-part sequence of tales targeted on entry to well being care and housing.

The venture was impressed by ongoing tales of neighborhood members present process monetary hardship, but remaining resilient. And it was backed by a report that exposed that the senior undocumented inhabitants will enhance by 1,300% within the subsequent decade in Illinois.

Most immigrants with out authorized standing arrived within the nation a long time in the past and have lived right here with no viable pathway to citizenship. Mexican immigrants will make up two-thirds of the undocumented older grownup populations in Illinois, adopted by immigrants from Jap Europe, Jap and Southeastern Asia, and Central America.

Now, this era of immigrants faces the prospect of getting lived and died within the shadows. Undocumented immigrants are blocked from accessing social packages that many seniors depend on, reminiscent of meals stamps, public housing, Medicare and Social Safety insurance coverage — packages that they pay billions of {dollars} into yearly. Their households and communities weave a patchwork of formal and casual sources to make up the distinction.

Native activists and organizers say it’s as much as state and native governments to guard all seniors no matter their immigration standing on the lack of federal help.

What does all of it imply? At midday on Wednesday, be part of Chicago Tribune reporter Laura Rodríguez Presa and Injustice Watch reporter Carlos Ballesteros for a Fb Dwell dialog in Spanish, that includes a panel of consultants who will assist dissect the sequence, its that means and potential impact.

Panelists:

• Luvia Quiñones: Serves because the Well being Coverage Director on the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). On this function, Quiñones oversees the Immigrant Well being Care Entry Initiative and in collaboration with ICIRR’s members develops ICIRR’s well being coverage agenda with a particular concentrate on entry to well being care and on well being care reform.
• Erendira Rendon: Vp of Immigrant Justice at The Resurrection Challenge (TRP). Rendon created TRP’s Immigrant Justice Division and serves because the group’s lead strategist and supervisor of native and statewide campaigns that have an effect on the lives of immigrants. Rendon is the daughter of undocumented seniors.
• Adela Carin: A neighborhood lawyer serving to to attach undocumented seniors to sources accessible within the Chicago space.