Medical residents: ICE presence causing public health crisis, ‘constant anxiety’ that could become chronic

About 200 medical residents and other health workers gathered in downtown Minneapolis to demand that federal agents leave the state.

By: Deanna Pistono

Outlets: MinnPost

Published: January 24, 2026

Words: 578

Last Updated: 2 days, 23 hours ago

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For a few minutes in subzero temperatures on Friday, medical residents gathered outside the Hennepin County Medical Center for a “unity break” alongside other statewide unions to demand ICE officers get out of their hospitals and out of Minnesota.

“(ICE has) created a massive public health crisis for our state,” said Avalon Swenson, an internal medicine resident at a U of M clinic. “To be quite frank, they’ve created massive public health crises across …

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