Mass Deportation Of Health Workers Would Put Patients At Risk

Forbes September 26, 2024
Howard Gleckman

For all the false talk about the burdens immigrants put on the US health care system, it is important to remember the other side of the story: Without foreign-born health workers, the US systems for medical and long-term care could, quite literally, collapse.

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump vows “the largest deportation operation in history” to say nothing of closing the borders to future immigration. But without those born overseas, already severe shortages of medical staff and care workers would become catastrophic. It is no exaggeration to say that, without immigrant health care workers, Americans will die for lack of care.

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