Peaceful houses are already faced with serious personnel problems, and researchers say that the famine of health workers under Trump’s immigration policies may worsen.
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One-third of immigrants who do not have more than 1 million citizens without legal status-Doctors, nurses, nursing home assistants and other basic and harder to fill in the US, working in the US, A new analysis Demonstrations.
As a result, President Trump’s threatening mass deportation and bored immigration restrictions may lead to bottlenecks, gridlock and agreed care during the American hospitals, care homes and all health system. Stefie Woolhandler is a Professor of Health Policy Avcı College and one of the last week of research letters. Steftie Woolhandler Jama.
“We already have troubles,” he said. “If we start to deport or scare the health workers who are not 1.1 million people, things will get worse. And this will affect the health care of all Americans.”
After analyzing the 2024 US census data, Woolhandler and his colleagues estimated that approximately 17% of the health labor force, or roughly 3.4 million workers, more than 5% of health workers, with approximately 700,000 people with more than 366,000 immigrants without legal and non -legal status.
Some regions of the United States rely on immigrants. Researchers estimate that almost 13% of non -citizens’ health labor force in New York, almost 10% in Florida and 9% in California.
About a quarter of the doctors working in the USA was born elsewhere and more than 6% legally here but not a citizen. The first is Dr. Kidney Transplant Specialist and Professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Brown. In March, Rasha Alawieh was rejected to re -enter the United States from Lebanon from his own country at the Boston Logan International Airport. The Department of Internal Security said he found evidence that Alawieh had participated in the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, a political group of the United States.
The deportation of the doctor trained by Yale, who has a valid visa, sent a chill to the entire backbone of the foreign -born health labor force. “He said.
“People are very scared if they are born strangers,” he said. “It is not good for the health system that everyone is always afraid.”
Neither the DHS nor the Health and Human Services Department did not respond to the request for comments about this story.
The Trump administration has made a series of measures and threatened to end legal guards for millions of US immigrants, and created uncertainty not only for immigrants, but also for employers.
Management Suspended refugee re -settlements And hundreds of thousands of Cubes, Haitili, Nicaragua and Venezuela canceled the legal guards and ordered the deportation of this month to be deported later. In addition, uncertainty, the status of immigrants, including doctors and nurses, the status of immigrants, illegally brought to the country as a child, and once a postponed action for childhood arrival or postponed action for the DACA program.
Woolhandler is likely to encourage anti -immigration policies and practices, doctors and nurses from outside the United States to think about looking for a job in a more pleasant country.
San Francisco accepts Janet Coffman, a professor of health policy at the University of California.
For example, the Philippines, 4 % makeup US nursing is 24% of nurses who died of labor and Covid-19.
“Maybe we’ll see that he prefers to go to Canada,” Coffman is not interested in the new analysis. He said.
“I think well -educated doctors with good options elsewhere will look very hard and try to go to other countries.” He said.
With an aging population and increasing need for health workers, the impact of Trump’s migration policies, The predicted famine of doctors together Registered nursesCoffman said.
Nevertheless, Coffman believes that the most urgent problem that is possible from immigration pressure will be a shortage of helping people in their homes and care homes.
“These changes in immigration policy are a great difficulty for home health and care homes because of their trust in immigration policy,” Coffman said. He said.
2024 Survey The American Health Association said that almost half of the care houses in the USA have to limit new assumptions due to personnel shortage. And researchers In the next 10 years, an 800,000 additional home care worker envisaged the need for elderly adults who wanted to stay in their homes.
“Even before the re -election of President Trump, the president was fighting to hire care houses and house health workers.” He said. “These decisions, if they are allowed to progress, they will really make it much more difficult to look at some of the most vulnerable ones.
Woolhandler is afraid that the anti -immigrant climate will combine the impact of health workers on hospitals coming from the famine of health workers and create “bottlenecks”.
Hospitals “new people will not be able to accept because they do not have places to leave the hospital because they do not leave the hospital,” he said. “They don’t need to be in the acute care hospital, but there’s no bed for them. And Trump is doing things that worse.”
