Read this tale in English:Workers at health clinics review their constitutional rights in anticipation of impending immigration raids.
The community health center at St. John’s Community Health in the south of Los Angeles is full of patients, but community health worker Ana Ruth Varela worries that everything will be much more peaceful. stated that many patients are afraid to leave their homes.
The other person spoke with one of the patients. I said: No s. Do you need my cita? Consider canceling? No s qu hacer. And y le dije: Easy as pie.
The fear of mass deportations carried out by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) has been embraced by immigrant communities since Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
During this time, a long-term policy was implemented that required federal immigration agents to make arrests in or near sensitive locations, such as schools, places of worship, hospitals, and health centers. It was among the first rules that Trump revoked in January, just hours after taking office as the new president.
On January 21, Benjamine Huffman, the interim secretary of the Department of Security National (DHS), revoked the directive. According to a DHS spokesperson in a prensa adjunto communication, the measure helps agents find immigrants who have committed crimes. Instead of ignoring our valuable police, the Trump administration insists that they employ the sense of com n, dec elcomicado.
the speed at which Darryn Harris was devastated.
“We have more time,” said Harris, St. John’s director of governmental affairs and community relations.
Harris is teaching more than 1,000 St. John’s employees about the importance of following court orders while preparing them for a new role: teaching patients their constitutional rights.
Darryn Harris explains to the health workers at the clinic St. John’s Community Health in the south of Los Angeles the constitutional right of patients to remain silent during immigration arrests.According to KFF Health News, Jackie Forti
The California fiscal general, Rob Conta, is directing the cl nicasque to provide information to the public regarding patients’ right to remain silent and to provide them with information about legal aid groups.
Additionally, Bonta instructs the medical care providers to omit the patients’ migration status from their bills and medical records. According to their office, even though employees are not required to confront immigration agents directly, they are not required to assist in an arrest.
Even if there were immigration-related arrests at hospitals during Trump’s first term, basic policy continues to be respectful of reasonable places. However, the DHS now claims that previous regulations hindered efforts to apply the law by creating situations in which those without legal status may avoid detention.
According to Matt Lopas, director of state defense and technical assistance for the National Immigration Law Center, immigration officials must obtain a court-signed order before they can access health information or enter private areas like examination rooms.
It is becoming crucial that each medical center have someone qualified to read these orders and assess their validity, with a focus on Lopas.
Zenaida Aguilera was chosen to read the arrest orders for the Cl nica de La Raza in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Aguilera is the CLNIC network’s compliance, privacy, and risk official. If immigration agents are present, they are under the supervision of the organization’s 31 community centers.
These days, Aguilera is also in charge of health employees’ science training. Although you have trained 250 people, the majority of that work is still to come.
“Probably around one million employees,” he said.
Aguilera believes that the Trump administration is considering implementing immigration laws in California because of the state’s over two million undocumented residents, which is the highest number in any state, according to the Pew Research Center. Eleven million people were living in the United States without legal documents in 2022.
Additionally, the CL nica plans to provide resources like contact information for groups of legal assistance and to place patients’ constitutional rights in the vest bulos of the CL nicas.
Aguilera stated, “We would prefer to just do the work of caring for our patients rather than training our staff on what to do if an ICE employee tries to enter our clinics.”
— KFF Health News’ Jackie Forti, second
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