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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Texas ICE Facility That's On Lockdown For Measles Has Contract Reassessed
The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that officials were reviewing a contract for Camp East Montana, a detention center in El Paso that is facing growing scrutiny over its living conditions and is grappling with a measles outbreak. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said officials were examining the center and that the department conducts rigorous inspections of facilities to 鈥渆nsure they are meeting our high standards.鈥 (Salhotra and Ngo, 3/4)
A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months died at a hospital Monday after a tooth infection was left untreated, the man鈥檚 brother said Wednesday. Emmanuel Damas, 56, told medical personnel at the Florence Correctional Center that he had a toothache in mid-February, but he was not sent to a dentist, said Damas鈥 brother, Presly Nelson. (Billeaud, 3/4)
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杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News: As ICE Moved In, Minnesotans Set Up A Shadow Medical System. It鈥檚 A Lesson For Other Cities
Gabi has big brown eyes, pigtails, and a genetic condition that makes her bones brittle. They fracture easily, leaving the 2-year-old in such pain that her mother quit her job cleaning offices to stay home and cradle her in the one-bedroom apartment they share with six relatives. When federal immigration agents descended on their city, officers deported Gabi鈥檚 father and detained her aunt. (Allen and Wells, 3/5)
The Department of Homeland Security plans to begin housing as many as 1,500 immigrant detainees inside a converted warehouse as early as April. (Heim and Golden, 3/5)
Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave. (Heffernan, Bogan and Flagg, 3/2)
In Springfield, Ohio, some Americans have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for immigrant families who could be targeted in raids. (Jordan, 3/3)
A Sunnyvale carpenter who was deported to Mexico with arrest-related injuries is fighting to return to the Bay Area. (Hendrick, 3/4)
