Author: Reporter

Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee. State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work such as inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for new and harmful germs, responding to outbreaks before they get too big — and a host of other tasks to protect both individuals and communities — are being hollowed out....

Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training in July were delayed by the Trump regime’s travel and visa restrictions. It is unclear exactly how many foreign medical residents were unable to start their assignments, but six medical residents interviewed by reporters say they have undergone years of training and work only to be stopped at the finish line by what is usually a procedural step. “I don’t want to give up,” said a permanent Canadian resident who matched to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Harrisburg...

At a federal immigration building in downtown Los Angeles guarded by U.S. Marines, daughters, sons, aunts, nieces, and others make their way to an underground garage and line up at a door with a buzzer at the end of a dirty, dark stairwell. It is here where families, some with lawyers, come to find their loved ones after they’ve been arrested by federal immigration agents. For immigrants without legal status who are detained in this part of Southern California, their first stop is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in the basement of the federal building. Officers verify...