California Expanding Health Care for Low-Income Immigrants in 2024

FILE - Migrants waiting to apply for asylum between two border walls hold out phones in hopes of getting a charge on May 11, 2023, in San Diego. FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a Clean California event in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 2023.

More than 700,000 immigrants living illegally in California will gain access to free health care starting Monday under one of the state's most ambitious coverage expansions in a decade.