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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, sometimes with warrants and sometimes without, and they are frequently present during patient care.
Their presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs.
A part of me wants to go on the news with my face and scream this at the top of my lungs, an HCMC nurse said. But I am very much right in the middle of this.
Community organizers from Unidos MN, an immigrant advocacy nonprofit, told reporters last week that federal immigration officers were present inside the hospital without a judicial warrant. The officers were reportedly at the bedside of a patient receiving medical care for over 24 hours.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/14/ice-agents-at-twin-cities-hospitals-alarm-medical-staff
31st Street Bridge
(102 posts)In any way we can.
generalbetrayus
(1,519 posts)RockCreek
(1,382 posts)Yet I keep wondering when those police forces will step up to protect the people they are responsible for protecting.
orangecrush
(28,716 posts)If they were going to step in, I think it would have happened by now.
RockCreek
(1,382 posts)HIPPAA violations.
peggysue2
(12,407 posts)After Good's murder, a big F-you to the public and Minnesota officials.
Should Democratic Reps refuse to vote on the upcoming budget until the abuse of power is addressed, until ACA extensions are okayed?
You're damn right they should!
2naSalit
(100,227 posts)For calling in the National Guard.
orangecrush
(28,716 posts)Of any intervention at this point.
purr-rat beauty
(1,007 posts)They are not State nor local police and if not on HIPAA nor invited by the patient, their presence by law is not allowed
One can hope this could be the case
Not sure how that works with those with warrants
leftstreet
(38,982 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(3,542 posts)If I had seen those guys walking around, they would probably have had to put me in ICU because of the blood pressure spike
Kid Berwyn
(23,191 posts)A doctor present volunteered to help, but was kept away from the fatally wounded Ms. Good.
The ambulance responding to the shooting of Ms. Good was intentionally blocked by ICE vehicles.
Now Minnesota police are barred by the FBI from even reading the investigation file of the homicide.
GenThePerservering
(3,164 posts)that does nothing. And why does 'being right in the middle of this' stop someone from speaking up for their patient?