NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2011 Jun;13(3):625-8. doi: 10.1007/s10903-010-9344-6.
Detention of immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a rapidly growing form of incarceration in the U.S. with almost 400,000 people detained in 2008 (Schriro in Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2009, http://www.ice.gov/doclib/091005_ice_detention_report-final.pdf ). ICE detainees are predominantly from Mexico and Latin America and only a small minority of detainees are asylum seekers. Immigrant detainees lack a legal guarantee of medical care (unlike criminal arrestees and prisoners) and face challenges in receiving medical care, particularly those with chronic medical conditions (Venters and Keller in J Health Care Poor Underserved 20:951-957, 2009). Although we and others have long been involved in advocating for detained asylum seekers, few resources are dedicated to medical advocacy for the broader population of ICE detainees. At the NYU Center for Health and Human Rights (CHHR), a program of medical advocacy was initiated in 2007 on behalf of ICE detainees focused on improvement of care in detention and medical parole. Our preliminary efforts reveal a pressing need for more involvement by physicians and other health advocates in this area.
移民和海关执法局（ICE）拘留移民是美国迅速发展的一种监禁形式，2008 年有近 40 万人被拘留（Schriro，Immigration and Customs Enforcement，2009，http://www.ice.gov/doclib/091005_ice_detention_report-final.pdf）。ICE 被拘留者主要来自墨西哥和拉丁美洲，只有少数被拘留者是寻求庇护者。移民被拘留者缺乏医疗保健的法律保障（与刑事被捕者和囚犯不同），并在接受医疗保健方面面临挑战，特别是那些患有慢性疾病的人（Venters 和 Keller，J Health Care Poor Underserved 20:951-957, 2009）。尽管我们和其他人长期以来一直参与倡导被拘留的寻求庇护者，但很少有资源专门用于为更广泛的 ICE 被拘留者提供医疗宣传。在纽约大学健康与人权中心（CHHR），一项代表 ICE 被拘留者的医疗宣传计划于 2007 年启动，重点是改善拘留和医疗假释期间的护理。我们初步的努力揭示了医生和其他健康倡导者在这一领域更多参与的迫切需要。
