Time for Coalitions to Protect Immigrant Health.

• Autores: Sarah E. DeYoung
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 109, Nº. 4, 2019, págs. 519-519
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on the need for a coalition to protect immigrant and asylum-seeker health. It comments on the deaths of Guatemalan child asylum-seekers Jackeline Caal and Felipe Gómez Alonzo who died in December of 2018 in U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody. It comments on barriers immigrants in the U.S. face in health care accessibility. It comments that DHS has failed to activate the Emergency Support Sheltering Function 6 under the U.S. National Response Framework.