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Your weekly summary from the Council
LATEST ANALYSIS
ACROSS THE NATION
FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
- Researchers found that 30% of all healthcare workers who have died from the coronavirus are immigrants. This is particularly alarming given how crucial immigrant healthcare workers are in the fight against the virus.
More than one-quarter of all doctors have medical degrees from foreign countries. This report shows the critical role these doctors play and that they are more likely than U.S.-trained doctors to practice in lower-income and disadvantaged communities.
Read more: Foreign-Trained Doctors are Critical to Serving Many U.S. Communities
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Detained migrants face obstacles to telephone use at every turn. Free calls are nearly impossible to schedule, poor sound quality often makes those calls worthless, and a lack of privacy makes confidentiality impossible.
"This would be alarming at any time, but it is all the more so during the COVID-19 pandemic, when attorneys and others cannot visit the Otero facility safely. ICE’s complete failure to provide telephone access has resulted in compromised legal representation at best and prolonged detention and deportation at worst.”
– Kate Melloy Goettel, legal director of litigation at the American Immigration Council
Read more: Detained Immigrants Ask Court to Stop ICE Interference to Phone Access in Immigration Detention Centers
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