As the nation braces for a dark winter of COVID-19, we remain hopeful that vaccines will arrive with the spring thaw. In the meantime, foreign-born essential workers are playing a critical role during the pandemic. It’s ...
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She’s a nurse with DACA protections. The coronavirus pandemic was a call to duty
Arizona has recorded 41,159 coronavirus cases and 1,252 deaths, with Phoenix and surrounding Maricopa County among the hardest hit. ...
Tatiana’s luck
She came to the U.S. legally and was trying to do everything right. Then came the coronavirus. ...
Cory Booker’s new bill would expand immigrants’ health care access during the pandemic
The senator’s plan would allow legal immigrants to enroll in Medicaid and CHIP, and allow unauthorized immigrants to buy insurance on health care exchanges. ...
DACA recipients ask Supreme Court to consider their work in fight against coronavirus
"Here, Secretary Nielsen explicitly considered the reliance interests," Francisco said. The case should be decided by June. ...
Exclusive: Serious Health Care Lapses Found in U.S. Detention Center Housing Transgender Migrants
Honduran detainee Shantell Hernandez, 29, said she had asked repeatedly for hormones at Cibola, but to no avail. It took her transfer to detention in Washington to get the medication she said she needed. ...
Patient advocates decry Trump administration move to restrict immigrants’ access to healthcare
“This is not only bad for the health and well-being of the people most directly affected, it is bad for all of us,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, head of the American Public Health Assn., one of scores of healthcare groups ...
Watchdog: MDs with convictions hired to examine immigrants
The report found the doctors appointed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services were not properly vetted — putting immigrants at risk of abuse, and potentially exposing U.S. citizens to contagious disease. ...
Trump’s Travel Ban Is Already Hurting America’s Medical System
But there were also doctors missing ― people who would have come from overseas to care for Americans’ health if not for President Donald Trump. ...
Another Cause Of Doctor Burnout: Being Forced To Give Immigrants Unequal Care
The patient, Cervantes said, was a woman from Mexico with kidney failure who repeatedly visited the emergency room for more than three years. In that time, her heart had stopped more than once, and her ribs were fracture ...
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