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Statement on MNCare Rollback
Posted on May 19 2025
The Minnesota state legislature plans to roll back MinnesotaCare state health benefits for undocumented adults in Minnesota, just six months after expanding coverage. The move has been described by legislators as a difficult fiscal decision, a budget compromise. This framing ignores the very real consequences of repealing health care from 15,000 of the most vulnerable Minnesotans. It distills human life to a number in a spreadsheet.
Providing health care to everyone benefits everyone. Snatching this fundamental human right from a group of people who have become the main targets of state terror is cruel, cowardly, and complicit in the atrocities that are daily features of the federal immigration agenda. For people who are already systematically marginalized, this decision signals the willingness of the state government to legislate their disposability.
As ILCM Policy Director, Julia Decker, notes, “Framing the removal of critical service access from people that are being scapegoated and targeted at a federal, systemic level as a difficult fiscal decision sidesteps the severity and enormity of this choice. This will not simply change lives. It will cost them.” The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM) stands in firm opposition to this inhumane policy and the shameful manner in which lawmakers have positioned their support to be a mere factor of fiscal responsibility.