borderhealthprogram – Radio Free TV

Doctors of the World USA condemns the recent extension of Title 42 expulsions at the U.S. southern border, despite the CDC’s stated position that the order should be lifted.
Title 42 has been used since 2020 by U.S. authorities to block and expel asylum seekers and other migrants from the United States under the guise of a pandemic mitigation measure. This decision endangers the lives of men, women and children who have a legal right to seek asylum and who are no more likely than anyone else in the country to carry disease.
Read the letter written by a group of public health experts, including Ron Waldman, Board President of Doctors of the World USA, urging the Biden administration to cease expansions to Title 42 and its subversion of public health to advance immigration control objectives.
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When our first patient, Luis, arrived in El Paso, TX he had to make a choice: receive medical treatment for severe pneumonia but remain in U.S. custody, or be released to travel freely within the U.S. but risk severe health complications, including death, from his pneumonia. What choice did he really have?

Unfortunately for Luis, this was not the first impossible choice he’s had to make. When his beloved wife was diagnosed with uterine cancer, he had to find a job that could pay enough to cover the cost of a life-saving hysterectomy. In his country, Venezuela, such a job did not exist. So, he had to make a choice: remain by his sick wife’s side or leave her (and his country) to find a job opportunity in the U.S.

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