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Immigrants & Health Care

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Discussion and Analysis

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Government Policies

Immigration Policy in the United States
From the Congressional Budget Office, 2006.

President Obama's View
Official position from whitehouse.gov.

Council on Foreign Relations
Independent Task Force report on immigration, 2009.

Opinion

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Background Resources

Wikipedia entry (starting point ONLY!)
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Urban Institute
Non-partisan social research organization. Statisics, policy analysis, position papers.

Immigration Policy Center
American Immigration Council, a non-partisan organization that neither supports nor opposes any political party or candidate for office.

Immigration Debate Report (2008)
Illegal Immgration Report
(2005)

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