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2 Policy Document Describe The Characteristics That Define the Chosen Population. Various characteristics define the population. For instance, they make up forty-six percent of the undocumented population, most of whom are from Mexico. The number of undocumented immigrant women from countries such as Venezuela, the Philippines, and China outnumbers the number of men from those countries ( Yu et al., 2020) . Moreover, the population majorly resides in California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey; these states are homes for most undocumented immigrants. Additionally, when it comes to age, approximately seventy-one percent of undocumented immigrant women are aged 25 to 54 years old, which is the prime working age. As time goes by, the percentage of women in prime working age continues to increase as they keep migrating in search of better jobs. Furthermore, less educated people tend to work in the casual labor force. Being uneducated and working in the casual labor force leads undocumented immigrant women with many financial constraints, which may enter their ability to access healthcare services (Yu et al., 2020). However, the percentage of undocumented immigrant women with less educational attainment is less than that of undocumented men. Undocumented immigrant women with low education attainment often work as maids, cleaners, waiters, and cashiers. Current Policies in Your Organization for Providing Health Care for Immigrants and Refugees Who Do Not Have Permanent Resident Status in The United States. Some of the current policies in the organization include it offers basic primary care for immigrant women who lack documentation. Basic primary care allows migrant women to be able to access some healthcare services without having to worry about documentation. When it comes to advanced care that requires medical coverage, undocumented immigrant women can

3 access it, that is, if they're able to afford cash payments. The current policies ensure that undocumented immigrant women can at least access basic healthcare services which makes it possible for them to be able to know if they are facing any major health issues and seek advanced healthcare services if they can pay cash payments. However, it may be a huge challenge if they cannot afford cash payments since they do not have health insurance. Although the organization's policy tries to ensure that undocumented immigrant women can access healthcare services, the policy still needs to cover all the healthcare needs of immigrants. There is a need for a policy that ensures that undocumented immigrant women can have access to advanced care since with the current policies undocumented immigrants cannot have access to quality healthcare services. Key Policy Elements That Guide Practice. The immigration policies require health practitioners to report any immigrant who does not have the necessary documents to allow them to seek health care services. Without the necessary documents, immigrant women cannot have healthcare insurance hands, making it impossible for them to access advanced care if they cannot afford cash payments ( Vernice et al., 2020) . The policies and practices keep changing as the cases of immigrants who lack proper documentation continue to increase. Immigrants who lack proper documentation are deported back to their home countries. The fear of deportation makes most documented immigrant women not seek healthcare services and avoid programs that provide healthcare services for women. With the legislation being unwelcoming to undocumented immigrants, the population continues living in fear of deportation, causing them not to seek health care services for fear of being discovered. Assumptions and Biases Against the Population.

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4 The United States policies make undocumented immigrant women illegal; therefore, they do not deserve to use the country's public services, including health care services. Moreover, most undocumented immigrants perceive that they do not belong in that country; therefore, they do not have the right to ensure their citizenship privileges ( Khullar & Chokshi, 2019) . Since they are undocumented immigrants, they do not have any documentation that allows them to ensure the country's privileges, making it hard for the immigrants to view themselves as people who deserve healthcare services despite their geographical location. Some United States citizens view some ethnicities, for instance, Mexicans, as drug traffickers who contribute to addiction in the United States; this view leads to the citizens being hostile to the immigrants ends, causing them to be reluctant to seek healthcare services ( Ruhnke et al., 2022) . Some religions, for instance, Muslims, are associated with terrorism; therefore, they cannot acquire society's trust, especially if they are undocumented immigrants. Most of these perceptions lead to innocent immigrants lacking access to healthcare. The assumptions generalized an ethnicity or a religion, causing harm to individuals who mean no harm to others. Moreover, the assumption affects a health practitioner's ethical decision-making ability. Healthcare practitioners need to be able to offer high-quality healthcare services to all people despite their ethnicity or religion; therefore, having their decision influenced by assumptions may end up causing them to provide low-quality care, leading to poor outcomes. Cultural and Linguistic Differences Influence Access to Care. Knowledge of cultural practices, values, and beliefs is vital when providing culturally competent care. Since most of the immigrants are from different cultural backgrounds, they provide a challenge for the medics ( Cervantes et al., 2019) . Although medics should be culturally competent may need to gain knowledge of all the characters around the globe. A lack of

5 knowledge concerning a patient's cultural practices, values, and beliefs prevents the medics from providing culturally competent care. Culturally incompetent care may cause disagreements between the patient and the health practitioners; therefore, hindering care quality. Linguistic differences may hinder access to care since it hinders communication between the patient and the healthcare practitioner ( Misra et al., 2021) . Communication is very important when offering health care since it is through communication that the patient and the healthcare practitioner can share important details about the patient's health. With effective communication, the patient and the practitioner may avoid getting into unnecessary disagreements, which may end up hindering the outcomes of healthcare services. As immigrants are not highly represented in the United States healthcare systems, getting quality healthcare services may be a major challenge. Cultural and linguistic differences, therefore, harm immigrants’ ability to access quality care due to the misunderstandings that come with the differences. United States Healthcare-Related Legislature of the Population. The immigrant policy states that undocumented immigrants should not be able to buy Medicaid, Medicare, or insurance covers; however, they can access emergency care. According to the immigrant policy, a practitioner should document any services they offer to undocumented immigrants and provide them to the concerned authorities hence leading to the deportation of the immigrant. The migrant policy has led most of the undocumented immigrants to fear seeking health care services, the fear of being discovered, and having them being deported back to their countries. Immigrants migrate to other countries to access jobs of better education; therefore, deportation may hinder their ability to provide for themselves and their families. The affordable care act, however, states that unauthorized immigrants can purchase insurance outside the United States; hence, enabling them to access minimal emergency care.

6 Although the affordable care act allows unauthorized immigrants to access much more healthcare in the United States, they may need help to access advanced care in the United States, especially if they cannot afford care. Although purchasing insurance outside the United States may provide a solution for unauthorized immigrants to access care, they may be limited to accessing care from various facilities. Undocumented immigrant women in the United States face various barriers that hinder them from accessing the best healthcare services, causing them to deal with different healthcare issues. The different policies and laws in the United States cannot guarantee ethical and fair undocumented immigrants, which leaves documented immigrant women unable to access healthcare. Moreover, policies and laws cannot ensure that healthcare practitioners can provide equitable, quality, and safe care to undocumented immigrants. Most undocumented immigrants suffer from prejudice due to their ethnicity or religion, which affects healthcare professionals' views of them. Therefore, making the professional is unable to make decisions without any bias. Seeing the challenges that immigrant women go through to access healthcare services, it is important to develop policies that can protect their healthcare needs, ensuring that they can access care.

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7 References Cervantes, L., Mundo, W., & Powe, N. R. (2019). The status of the provision of standard outpatient dialysis for US undocumented immigrants with ESKD. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN , 14 (8), 1258. Khullar, D., & Chokshi, D. A. (2019). Challenges for immigrant health in the USA—the road to crisis. The Lancet , 393 (10186), 2168-2174. Misra, S., Kwon, S. C., Abraído-Lanza, A. F., Chebli, P., Trinh-Shevrin, C., & Yi, S. S. (2021). Structural racism and immigrant health in the United States. Health Education & Behavior , 48 (3), 332-341. Ruhnke, S. A., Reynolds, M. M., Wilson, F. A., & Stimpson, J. P. (2022). A healthy migrant effect? Estimating health outcomes of the undocumented immigrant population in the United States using machine learning. Social Science & Medicine , 307 , 115177. Vernice, N. A., Pereira, N. M., Wang, A., Demetres, M., & Adams, L. V. (2020). The adverse health effects of punitive immigrant policies in the United States: A systematic review. PLoS One , 15 (12), e0244054. Yu, M., Kelley, A. T., Morgan, A. U., Duong, A., Mahajan, A., & Gipson, J. D. (2020). Challenges for adult undocumented immigrants in accessing primary care: a qualitative study of health care workers in Los Angeles County. Health Equity , 4 (1), 366-374.

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