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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
George B. Sánchez-Tello

‘They Feel They Can Trust No One; Not Even to Open the Door’

Family Nurse Practitioner Bukola Olusanya, Medical Assistant Guillermo Lopez and Family Nurse Practitioner Ugochi Nnadozie with St. John’s Community Health in Los Angeles prepare to visit undocumented patients who are too afraid to leave home due to immigration raids. Photos by Barbara Davidson.

Calm, soft-spoken nurse Gabriella Oloye considers her words carefully when she tells me about one of her recent home visits with an immigrant patient.

When the 6-foot-8-inch tall Oloye walked into a South Los Angeles apartment for an appointment with a middle-aged mother in June, the nurse noticed luggage near the door. The woman, an undocumented immigrant, had decided to self-deport and move her family back to Mexico.

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