The Value of Immigrant Doctors
A series of recent journal articles highlight the crucial role foreign-born doctors, some of whom are threatened by Trump’s immigration orders, play in the U.S. health-care system.
Immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries have a reprieve—for now at least. A federal judge in Washington blocked President Trump’s travel ban Friday night.
That means that among other visa-holders, the 260 medical-school graduates from the affected countries who had applied for medical residency slots in the United States are temporarily able to travel to the U.S. and interview for positions.
But their future is uncertain: The ruling could still be, which would keep them from returning to the U.S. to actually start their medical training. The future of undocumented doctors already in the U.S. is also uncertain. When he campaigned, Trump promised to deport undocumented people who came
