Patients are afraid to show up to medical appointments, while workers are being detained, deported or losing their visa statuses.
President Donald Trump has made increasing immigration enforcement a top priority of his administration. By one tally, he’s taken more than 500 actions on immigration in the first year of his second term — including mass deportations, suspending refugee admissions, banning travel from certain countries and removing legal status from some immigrants already in the country.
“We had patients call us and say I’m not going to seek health care ever again,” said Steph Willding, CEO of CommunityHealth.
Listen to this episode of Tradeoffs: Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care – Tradeoffs