Health workers say ICE agents at hospitals are compromising patient care
Imperfect Paradise
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4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Amid the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration, there’s been an uptick in ICE presence in hospitals across the country. At Adventist Health White Memorial hospital in Boyle Heights, doctors say that hospital administrators have even allowed immigration agents to interfere with patients’ medical care. LAist correspondent Jill Replogle has been reporting on the hospital. She tells us how healthcare workers are dealing with immigration agents showing up in emergency rooms and clinics, what it says about patients' rights to privacy and the treatment of immigrants in hospitals moving forward.
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| 0:40.5 | As ice raids ramped up this summer in Los Angeles, frequent headlines hit the news cycle about people getting seriously injured and even dying while trying to flee from agents. |
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| 0:56.9 | Family, friends, and workers remembering the man who was killed by an SUV while trying to run away from ice. |
| 1:03.0 | There's also been an uptick in ice presence at hospitals around the country. |
| 1:06.8 | Confrontations in hospitals between staff and federal immigration agents have gone viral online. |
| 1:15.5 | At one hospital in L.A., doctors say immigration agents are being allowed to interfere with patients' medical care. |
| 1:22.4 | So how are health care workers dealing with this new presence of agents in emergency rooms and clinics, |
| 1:27.5 | and what does it say about patients' rights to privacy and the treatment of immigrants in hospitals moving forward? |
| 1:33.7 | LAIS correspondent Jill Replicle has been reporting on all of this, and she joins us now. |
| 1:38.8 | Hey, Jill. |
| 1:39.4 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:40.8 | Of course, so I understand that you got a tip from an LAS member. How did that initially set off your reporting? |
| 1:48.8 | Yeah, well, as you said, as the immigration raids were really ramping up and kind of taking over the news this summer, I got a message from someone who works at Adventist Health White Memorial, which is a hospital in Boyle Heights here in L.A., saying |
| 2:02.6 | that the hospital was seeing a large number of patients brought in by ICE. These are detained patients, |
| 2:08.7 | sometimes two to three patients per shift. And some of the staff were concerned about how these |
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