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Coral Murphy Marcos

California nurses decry Ice presence at hospitals: ‘Interfering with patient care’

Legs of medic running with gurney along hospital corridor.
Legs of medic running with gurney along hospital corridor. Photograph: Phil Fisk/Getty Images/Image Source

Dianne Sposito, a 69-year-old nurse, is laser-focused on providing care to anyone who enters the UCLA emergency room in southern California, where she works.

That task was made difficult though one week in June, she said, when a federal immigration agent blocked her from treating an immigrant who was screaming just a few feet in front of her in the hospital.

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