Doctors jailed for trying to provide care for immigrants

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Six protesters, including four doctors, were arrested outside of a Border Patrol facility in Chula Vista, California as they demanded agents allow them to give migrants flu shots. “With peak flu season imminent, the U.S. detaining a record number of children, and new evidence that immigration officials lied about the horrifying, flu-related death of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, it is more important than ever that people in detention facilities are allowed access to potentially life-saving flu clinic services.” (Press release on behalf of protesters)
“Now we are locking up doctors who want to provide humanitarian relief. America are you looking in the mirror?” (Facebook post)
Editor’s note: Support for the action includes: Doctors for Camp Closure (D4CC), made up of over 2,000 physicians and healthcare professionals; The Families Belong Together coalition, of nearly 250 different groups comprising tens of thousands of Americans; Never Again Action, a mass mobilization of Jews organizing to shut down ICE; and local community members are support for the action.

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