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Philly City Councilmember seeks to stop ‘medical deportations’ that expel sick immigrants

The measure that was introduced on Thursday states: “No hospital in Philadelphia may engage in medical deportation, either directly or through a designated agent.”

Armando Jimenez-Carbarin, a lead organizer for Make the Road Pennsylvania, spoke at a rally last year outside of Lehigh Valley Health Network-Cedar Crest Hospital in Allentown, where immigration advocates sought to stop the "medical deportation" of a comatose woman to her Dominican Republic homeland.
Armando Jimenez-Carbarin, a lead organizer for Make the Road Pennsylvania, spoke at a rally last year outside of Lehigh Valley Health Network-Cedar Crest Hospital in Allentown, where immigration advocates sought to stop the "medical deportation" of a comatose woman to her Dominican Republic homeland.Read moreCourtesy of the Free Migration Project