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AGING IN THE SHADOWS: SPOTLIGHTING THE CHALLENGES FACING ILLINOIS’ AGING
UNDOCUMENTED POPULATION

By Laura Rodríguez Presa and CARLOS BALLESTEROS
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Martina Alonso, 69, left, hugs her husband, Gregorio Pillado, 79, in their
apartment before Pillado leaves at approximately 2:30 a.m. for his job in a
meatpacking plant in Chicago. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)





The Chicago Tribune and Injustice Watch teamed up to report on the challenges
facing Illinois’ aging undocumented population in a four-part series of stories
focused on access to health care and housing.


AGING IN THE SHADOWS: A CRISIS OF OLDER UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS AWAITS ILLINOIS

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Gregorio Pillado, 79, stands with his medications after arriving home from his
job in Chicago on Feb. 25, 2022. At left is his wife, Martina Alonso, 69.
Pillado requires medications for heart and blood ailments. Because the two are
undocumented immigrants, they are not eligible for social services to alleviate
the strain on their living situation. Pillado and Alonso are among of the
increasing number of aging undocumented workers in Illinois. (Antonio
Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Most undocumented immigrants arrived in the country decades ago and have lived
here without a viable pathway to citizenship. Mexican immigrants will make up
two-thirds of the undocumented older adult populations in Illinois, followed by
immigrants from Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeastern Asia, and Central
America.



Now, this generation of immigrants faces the prospect of having lived and died
in the shadows. Undocumented immigrants are blocked from accessing social
programs that many seniors rely on, such as food stamps, public housing,
Medicare and Social Security Insurance — programs that they pay billions of
dollars into every year. Their families and communities weave a patchwork of
formal and informal resources to make up the difference.

>>> Read more here



>>> Para leer en español, haga clic aquí


ILLINOIS’ NEW HEALTH CARE PROGRAM FOR UNDOCUMENTED SENIORS LEAVES SOME OF THE
MOST VULNERABLE BEHIND

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Ananias Ocampo, 78, an undocumented street vendor who worked for years pushing
an ice cream cart in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, uses a walker for mobility
along 18th Street on Dec. 2, 2021. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

More than 9,000 seniors enrolled in the Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults
program in its first year — three times as many as advocates had estimated would
benefit from the program when they lobbied for the bill in Springfield in spring
2020. But the carve-outs for extended care and at-home health care still leave a
critical gap in coverage, health experts say.



“The numbers (of enrollees) show the need of this population often living under
the shadow. It also shows the potential crisis that this can cause if this issue
is not addressed by our leaders in the state, but also federally,” Eréndira
Rendón, an organizer with Healthy Illinois, said.

>>> Read more here

>>> Para leer en español, haga clic aquí


CHICAGO’S UNDOCUMENTED SENIORS FACE SLIM AND DANGEROUS HOUSING OPTIONS

Cipriano, 70, moves through the home he shares with his wife, Lilia, in Chicago
on March 24, 2022. They are both undocumented and were forced out of the
basement apartment they had lived in for 14 years at the same time that
Cipriano's health deteriorated and his leg was amputated. Note: Injustice Watch
and the Chicago Tribune agreed to use only their first names because they fear
retaliation from immigration authorities. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

With rising costs of living and without a social safety net, undocumented
seniors often depend on their families to have a roof over their head. And those
without families to take care of them are at high risk of ending up on the
street.

Burdening their children and families with having care for them in their later
years can elicit feelings of shame and guilt in undocumented seniors, said
Cecilia Ayón, a public policy analyst at the University of California,
Riverside, who recently interviewed dozens of undocumented older adults as part
of her research.

“When it comes to retirement, you have to think about the intersection of how
long can they work for and how much of a burden they want to be on their
children. Because that’s actually how they talked about it — they don’t want to
be a burden on their children,” she said.

>>> Read more here

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WITH CONGRESS GRIDLOCKED, ADVOCATES SAY IT’S UP TO STATE AND LOCAL LAWMAKERS TO
PROTECT THE UNDOCUMENTED ELDERLY

Janeth Vasquez, left, hugs her mother, Veronica Ortega outside their home in
suburban Maywood on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Thanks to Janeth Vazquez, a DACA
recipient, her parents were able to buy their own home in Maywood. (Antonio
Perez / Chicago Tribune)

Illinois is home to nearly 200,000 undocumented immigrants age 35 to 54,
according to census data analyzed by the Migration Policy Institute. That means
every year over the next few decades, thousands more undocumented seniors will
be working to the bone without being able to retire; in desperate need of
immediate and long-term health care; and frantically searching for safe
affordable housing.

Advocates say Illinois lawmakers should build state-funded welfare programs for
undocumented seniors that mirror those already in place for citizens, like food
stamps and unemployment insurance. Illinois has taken a similar approach with a
new health care program for low-income immigrant adults who don’t qualify for
traditional Medicaid.

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