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Once a Patient’s in Custody, ICE Can Be at Hospital Bedsides — But Detainees Have Rights - KFF Health News

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In July, federal immigration agents took Milagro Solis-Portillo to Glendale Memorial Hospital just outside Los Angeles after she suffered a medical emergency while being detained. They didn’t leave. For two weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractors sat guard in the hospital lobby 24 hours a day, working in shifts to monitor her movements, her attorney Ming Tanigawa-Lau said. ICE later transferred the…

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