Nurses in eight states are coordinating protests today (Feb. 19) to call attention to what they describe as the severe harms posed by ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). Nurses are also blaming hospital executives for failing to keep ICE out of hospitals. The effort, organized by National Nurses United, calls on Congress to stop funding ICE and CBP and to abolish ICE entirely. “We are way past the point of ‘reform,’” says Mary Turner, an intensive care unit RN from Minneapolis and president of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union of registered nurses. “We all need to wake up and shut ICE down before it is too late.”
