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California nurses decry Ice presence at hospitals: 'Interfering with patient care'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/california-ice-hospitals-patient-careCalifornia nurses decry Ice presence at hospitals: ‘Interfering with patient care’
Caregiving staff say agents are bringing in patients, often denying them visitors and speaking on their behalf to staff
Coral Murphy Marcos
Tue 16 Sep 2025 08.00 EDT
Dianne Sposito, a 69-year-old nurse, is laser-focused on providing care to anyone who enters the UCLA emergency room in southern California, where she works.
That task was made difficult though one week in June, she said, when a federal immigration agent blocked her from treating an immigrant who was screaming just a few feet in front of her in the hospital.
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