{"id":27402,"date":"2025-05-08T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27402"},"modified":"2025-05-08T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:25:10","slug":"migrants-are-skipping-medical-care-fearing-ice-doctors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27402","title":{"rendered":"Migrants Are Skipping Medical Care, Fearing ICE, Doctors Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since President Trump announced plans for mass deportations and rescinded protections for hospitals and clinics, health care facilities have seen a jump in no-shows.<\/p>\n

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A man lay on a New York City sidewalk with a gun shot wound, clutching his side.<\/p>\n

Emily Borghard, a social worker who hands out supplies to the homeless through her nonprofit, found him and pulled out her phone, preparing to dial 911. But the man begged her not to make the call, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no, no,\u201d he said, telling her in Spanish that he would be deported.<\/p>\n

Ms. Borghard tried to explain that federal law required hospitals to treat him, regardless of his immigration status, but he was terrified.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018If I go to the emergency department, that will put me on their radar,\u2019\u201d she recalled in an interview recounting the incident.<\/p>\n

Across the country, doctors, nurses and social workers are increasingly concerned that people with serious medical conditions, including injuries, chronic illnesses and high-risk pregnancies, are forgoing medical care out of fear of being apprehended by immigration officials. Since the Trump administration announced plans for mass deportations and rescinded<\/a> a Biden-era policy that protected spaces like hospitals, medical clinics and churches from immigration enforcement, doctors said they have seen sharp increases in patient anxiety and appointment no-show rates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If the trend continues, health care officials say, the list<\/a> of consequences could be long: Infectious diseases circulating unnecessarily; worsening health care costs because of untreated chronic illnesses; and dangerous birth complications for women who wait too long to seek help, among others.<\/p>\n

In a survey conducted by KFF<\/a>, a health policy research organization, 31 percent of immigrants <\/em>said that worries about immigration status \u2014 their own or that of a family member \u2014 was negatively affecting their health. About 20 percent of all immigrants surveyed said they were struggling with their eating and sleeping; 31 percent reported worsened stress and anxiety.<\/p>\n

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Since President Trump announced plans for mass deportations and rescinded protections for hospitals and clinics, health care facilities have seen a jump in no-shows.A man lay on a New York City sidewalk with a gun shot wound, clutching his side.Emily Borghard, a social worker who hands out supplies to the homeless through her nonprofit, found him and pulled out her phone, preparing to dial 911. But the man begged her not to make the call, she said.\u201cNo, no, no,\u201d he said, telling her in Spanish that he would be deported.Ms. Borghard tried to explain that federal law required hospitals to treat him, regardless of his immigration status, but he was terrified.\u201cHe said, \u2018If I go to the emergency department, that will put me on their radar,\u2019\u201d she recalled in an interview recounting the incident.Across the country, doctors, nurses and social workers are increasingly concerned that people with serious medical conditions, including injuries, chronic illnesses and high-risk pregnancies, are forgoing medical care out of fear of being apprehended by immigration officials. Since the Trump administration announced plans for mass deportations and rescinded a Biden-era policy that protected spaces like hospitals, medical clinics and churches from immigration enforcement, doctors said they have seen sharp increases in patient anxiety and appointment no-show rates.If the trend continues, health care officials say, the list of consequences could be long: Infectious diseases circulating unnecessarily; worsening health care costs because of untreated chronic illnesses; and dangerous birth complications for women who wait too long to seek help, among others.In a survey conducted by KFF, a health policy research organization, 31 percent of immigrants said that worries about immigration status \u2014 their own or that of a family member \u2014 was negatively affecting their health. About 20 percent of all immigrants surveyed said they were struggling with their eating and sleeping; 31 percent reported worsened stress and anxiety.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27404,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27405,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27402\/revisions\/27405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}