Hospitals are meant to be sanctuaries of healing, yet immigration enforcement policies are turning them into sites of surveillance, fear and exclusion.
Health care workers today face a stark mandate: comply with federal policies that permit Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to operate within medical settings, or resist participation in a system that undermines patient trust and public health.
Y. Tony Yang is a professor of health policy at the George Washington University’s School of Nursing and Milken Institute School of Public Health.
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