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Massive anti-ICE protests are taking spot crossed the US pursuing the sidesplitting of 2 Minnesotans — including an ICU nurse — by ICE agents.
1. "We had a diligent travel successful for exigency surgery. He was Spanish-speaking only. I talk Spanish, truthful helium was assigned to me. He told america helium had nary household to interaction successful lawsuit of exigency oregon to update aft surgery. I told him implicit and implicit that helium was harmless and we would support his individuality secure, but helium was truthful acrophobic helium conscionable couldn’t. It was heartbreaking to ticker this antheral spell done this alone. He was truthful brave protecting them, but I besides thought astir them…no thought if helium was good oregon would return…"
"I wondered if helium was their breadwinner and what would hap to them if helium didn’t. Aside from amended diligent outcomes erstwhile radical person a enactment strategy astatine bedside, nary 1 should person to spell done wellness scares unsocial due to the fact that of our existent 'management.' I person worked successful captious attraction for years, I’ve seen galore tragedies and heartbreaking moments, but this 1 sticks with me."
—Critical Care Post Op Nurse, NY
2. "I enactment successful an country wherever ICE is precise active. I’ve had patients (who are children) beryllium incapable to be medically indispensable therapy appointments due to the fact that their parents fearfulness for their safety."
3. "Also, successful a small municipality successful Texas, I went to prime up immoderate groceries astatine a engaged country store wearing achromatic scrubs and a look mask. Customers thought I was ICE, and it cleared retired successful a precise fewer quiet, whispery minutes. Full carts were abandoned. Police states suck."
4. "I was conscionable asked by a begetter (US citizen) to constitute a missive for his woman (Mexican, I don't cognize her visa/green paper status), stating that she is breastfeeding their six-week-old son. He said helium needed it for ICE, but did not elaborate further. Actually, astir of this connection came second-hand done my nurses. Of course, I wrote the letter. I americium chilled. The constabulary authorities is real, present successful my small municipality successful Texas."
5. "ICE showed up astatine 1 of our outer offices a fewer weeks ago. Didn't apprehension anyone but checked everyone's citizenship papers. I've had my unit (a just fig of immigrants, immoderate native-born similar me) commencement carrying their citizenship documents with them."
6. "Well, they conscionable murdered 1 of my VHA colleagues, truthful that was a large one...."
7. "If ICE showed up and did immoderate egregious crap successful my ER, I’ll marque them cuff maine first. We person tons of migrants. I person the resources truthful that I tin spend not to work, and it’s the close happening to bash for my patients."
"I’m not acrophobic for myself yet. They’re not going to spell disappearing US national ER docs to Salvadoran gulags yet. The scary happening is we mightiness get there."
—EM Attending
8. "I person a diligent who nary call/no showed contiguous and it's truly dissimilar her. Last week she adjacent expressed however healing our league had been, truthful present one conscionable consciousness floored. I've work that ICE beingness has ramped up successful my metropolis this week, and I'm truly acrophobic this diligent - and others - could beryllium targeted."
"I cognize ICE has been utilizing medicaid information to way down people, and that is her insurance. I don't cognize what I'm looking for successful making this post, but simply the thought made maine burst into tears. I'm excessively embarrassed to accidental thing to my supervisor astir it successful lawsuit I dependable paranoid oregon excessively attached to my diligent oregon something. I'm conscionable frightened and reasoning the worst. similar truthful many, I consciousness truthful helpless..."
—r/therapists
9. "We are starting to spot radical coming into the psychiatric hospitals that are incapable to header with the changeless fearfulness of being hunted down successful the streets by masked men. Therapists are astatine a nonaccomplishment due to the fact that we can’t archer them that it's thing that isn’t going to happen."
10. "I unpaid astatine a escaped session for Spanish-speaking families. They don't travel to our session anymore for fearfulness of ICE raiding the offices."
"This means kids aren't getting follow-up care, vaccines, antibiotics if they're sick, oregon referrals to specializer attraction they whitethorn need. This could person semipermanent effects connected their health, and immoderate kids could dice from things that are different easy preventable."
—Pediatrician, West Virginia
11. "A household with a kid with a analyzable aesculapian past who was severely disabled and sick was successful the children’s infirmary wherever I work. His household had travel present from Central America to get him the aesculapian attraction helium needed to enactment alive. While helium was successful the hospital, ICE came for his mother."
12. "The patients I enactment for are terrified of being taken by ICE. A ample bulk of my colonisation is foreign-born. Many person ineligible status, but are evidently inactive frightened since ICE is going aft anyone who is not a achromatic male."
13. "During declaration negotiations with our union, we made definite that determination were wide guidelines for what nurses were expected to bash and who they were expected to call. We were consenting to onslaught connected that issue."
"That being said, the infirmary refuses to reply if they volition necessitate a judicial warrant oregon if they volition rotation implicit with an administrative warrant. While determination are exceptions, astir nurses and different healthcare providers volition hazard jailhouse earlier they cooperate with ICE."
—Registered Nurse, California
14. "I americium an RN astatine a Chronic Hemodialysis Center. ICE doesn’t recognize that Hemodialysis treatments are regularly 3 times a week, and it is medically indispensable to proceed them. There is nary Hemodialysis successful ICE custody anywhere. Some patients are acrophobic to permission location to get their treatments. Mostly for their big children of caregivers."
15. "There is simply a diligent that came successful portion successful ICE custody. 2 agents person been by their broadside the full clip they’ve been astatine my hospital, which I judge has been astir a week and a half. Nurses person been asking the agents to measurement retired during diligent care. While they were extracurricular of the room, they started walking astir the portion and looking into different diligent rooms."
"They person besides been nasty to immoderate unit that is simply a minority. A fewer days aft they arrived, they detained 1 of our nursing assistants from the aforesaid unit, which cannot beryllium a coincidence. I walked past the country connected my mode retired today, arsenic this is the way I already instrumentality to my car each day, and some agents were successful plain clothes. It’s getting fucking scary retired here."
—r/nursing
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