Public health experts call on Chicago medical institutions to protect patients from ICE

 In an op-ed in the Sun-Times, public health experts outline steps to protect patients from immigration enforcement. They point to the 1850s when the federal government deputized local officials to enforce slavery and Chicagoans stepped up to protect Black people fleeing slavery.

In the Loop discusses that history and the call to maintain medical facilities as safe spaces.

GUESTS: Dr. Linda Rae Murray, professor, University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Public Health; former chief medical officer of the Cook County Department of Public Health

Dr. Claudia Fegan, national coordinator for the Physicians for a National Health Program; former chief medical officer of Cook County Health