Ambulances wait at the emergency department at UCSF Parnassus in 2025. Hospitals have become a battleground in the immigration fight now that federal agents are allowed to operate in medical facilities

Theresa Cheng is not only a UCSF professor and emergency department doctor, but she’s also a civil rights attorney. Her expertise in the medical and legal fields offers a unique perspective on the fallout from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

As Cheng wrote in an Open Forum on Thursday, hospitals have become a battleground in the immigration fight now that federal agents are allowed to operate in medical facilities

“The public conversation has really been focused on immigration crackdowns in the community and in detention centers and immigration courts, but not so much in health........

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