The agency is seeking doctors, nurses, and pharmacists as unprecedented numbers of people swept up in Donald Trump’s ‘mass deportation’ drive

ICE is scrambling to hire doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare workers after a surge in detainee deaths and lawsuits over medical neglect.

Online job listings showed at least 45 open positions within the agency’s Health Service Corps as of Monday, ranging from dental hygienists through psychiatric nurse practitioners to medical risk managers and data scientists.

The recruiting drive, first reported by Politico, comes after a spate of lawsuits alleging that ICE has failed to provide proper medical care to the people it detains, with officials warehousing prisoners in rapidly built temporary detention centers as they race to fulfill Donald Trump’s mass deportation drive.

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    2 months ago

    “Why now? You never seemed overly concerned about detainee well-being before.”

    “Yeah, but then Joseph suggested that if we could manage to keep them alive, we’d get to mistreat each of them for longer. And what else are we going to spend this absurdly massive budget on? More artillery?”

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    2 months ago

    Ugh. Just imagine the kind of “healthcare workers” these facilities are going to attract. This nightmare just keeps getting worse.