Undocumented Alien Emergency Medical Assistance Amendments of 2004

Resolution calling on the Members of the House of Representatives to vote against House Resolution 3722, also referred to as the Undocumented Alien Emergency Medical Assistance Amendments of 2004, which would place harsh restrictions on undocumented immigrants’ access to emergency medical services, impose burdensome requirements on hospitals’ participation in Congressionally authorized fiscal relief programs, place persons with emergency health needs at risk of deportation, and attempt to make employers directly liable for undocumented workers’ emergency health costs, and offering the Council’s full support in ensuring that everyone in the City, regardless of immigration status, is entitled to health care, including emergency care, without fear of immigration or employment consequences.