Latin American Children of the US Immigration Crisis: The Essential Roles that All Pediatric Health Care...

Over 26% of US children live in immigrant families. Current immigration policy has disrupted children's access to health care and social/educational services that negatively affect their wellbeing. This article provides an overview of US immigration policy and examples of immigrant advocacy efforts including clinical advocacy-assuring that medical providers are taught evidence-based immigrant health care and that children receive this care; grass roots advocacy-working with border shelters and forming national networks of pediatric providers to link children to health care; and legal/policy advocacy-forming cross-border US/Mexican collaborative governance to provide binationally accepted health insurance and legal documentation.