For the last few months Minneapolis has been experiencing a historic immigration enforcement crackdown, which has even spread to medical facilities. Workers at one hospital in Minneapolis say ICE officers have restrained patients and lingered around the facility demanding proof of citizenship from people.
It has forced many patients without legal status and their health care providers to set up alternate forms of care.
“It really worries me that fear is causing people not to access health care,” one Minneapolis doctor told NPR on the condition that he remain anonymous to protect his patients. “I get really concerned that people ignore acute symptoms, things that they really should be coming in for. Breathing problems, bad abdominal pain.”…