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Take MCN’s 2020 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Take MCN’s 2020 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Apr 8, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
ICE raids. Public charge. Rhetoric around immigration. In the last three years, clinicians who have taken MCN’s annual poll have confirmed that forces outside of the clinic interrupt health care…
Health Network's Alma Colmenero and Robert Corona discuss a case in the MCN office in Austin, TX.

A Six-Year-Old Asylum Seeker with Microcephaly and Frequent Seizures Struggles to Get Emergency Care, So Health Network Steps In

Jan 23, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Health Network's Alma Colmenero and Robert Corona discuss a case in the MCN office in Austin, TX. A young Guatemalan mother and father and their two young sons crossed the border earlier this…
A woman holding her infant child

An Asylum Seeker, Her High-Risk Pregnancy, and Deep Vein Thrombosis: A Health Network Case Study

Dec 21, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Marisa*, a 40-year-old asylum seeker from Central America, was seven months pregnant when she was detained by border patrol. While in custody, she started having difficulty breathing, lower abdomen…
Deliana Garcia, MA, Director, International Projects and Emerging Issues

Deliana Garcia: Intrepid Champion for Health Justice

Dec 17, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Deliana Garcia has been a relentless and intrepid champion for health justice with Migrant Clinicians Network for over three decades. Known for her determination, she has dedicated her career to…
Saul Delgado, Health Network Database Specialist

Saul Delgado: From a Childhood in Cuba, to Health Network Database Specialist

Dec 2, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Saul Delgado’s childhood summers were spent climbing mango trees with his cousins in his grandmother’s backyard in San Juan y Martinez, a tobacco-growing region in the western Cuban countryside.…
Dr. Laszlo Madaras at the Austro-Hungarian Border

Dr. Madaras: A Refugee’s First Thanksgiving

Nov 27, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Dr. Laszlo Madaras at the Austro-Hungarian border while traveling in 2019. Fifty years ago, after a year living as refugees, the family of Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, finally arrived in Bangor, Maine…
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Announcing MCN’s Updated Mission and Vision

Nov 4, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Since 1984, Migrant Clinicians Network has worked tirelessly to build practical solutions at the intersection of vulnerability, migration, and health -- and we’re ready for the next 35 years. To…
A chorus sings at the 2018 Voces Fuertes Concert

One Year Later: Voces Fuertes Still Singing for Justice

Oct 30, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
One year ago this week, the powerful voices and instruments of Berkeley area youth resonated in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, all for a good cause: Migrant Clinicians…
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Pregnant and Without Health Care: Dr. Adrian Billings on New Public Charge Rule

Oct 15, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This summer, a woman who was four months pregnant discontinued her Medicaid health care, despite being legally eligible for the coverage, and planned to pay out of pocket for prenatal care,…
Candace Kugel - MCN 35 year anniversary

Candace Kugel: A Life Serving Immigrant Women and Children

Oct 2, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Over the course of her decades of care for the underserved, Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM, MS, has delivered hundreds of babies, from Pennsylvania to Honduras, trained hundreds of clinicians to…
Mike Seifert points at lists of names of those waiting to be called to cross border legally

Perspective from the Border: Mike Seifert

Sep 18, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“The Rio Grande Valley, which is one end of our very long southern border, is an entity in and of itself,” summarized Mike Seifert, a border advocate and resident for over 30 years. The region’s…
Woman stands with her baby and daughter

MCN Statement: New Migrant Policies Jeopardize the Health and Safety of Migrants

Sep 17, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“A Guatemalan father and daughter were being held by kidnappers in Ciudad Juarez at the time of their US hearings in early July but were ordered deported because they didn’t show up to court.” -…
CBP officer lets detainees out of holding area.

Is Medical Protocol at Border Patrol Facilities Sufficient?

Sep 10, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Who is responsible for the health and wellbeing of refugee-seeking families in detention at the US-Mexico border? At least three children have died of influenza while in Customs and Border…
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On the Other Side: Central American Immigrants on the Northern Border of Mexico

Aug 28, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
(This image is licensed under: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode)US President Donald Trump announced at the end of May his decision to impose new tariffs or increase existing…
Position Statement: Children Should Never Be Held in Detention

Position Statement: Children Should Never Be Held In Detention

Aug 22, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Migrant Clinicians Network stands firmly against the Trump Administration’s shocking decision to dissolve the Flores Settlement, paving the way to detain children for indefinite periods of time.“It…
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MCN welcomes Nelly Salgado de Snyder, MA, DSW

Aug 7, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
In the early 1980s, Nelly Salgado de Snyder, MA, DSW, noticed something troubling about the research on migrating women from Mexico: it didn’t exist. “ were moving, but you couldn’t find a…
Emanual Ramirez

Emanual Ramirez,18-Year-Old US Citizen of Parents Without Work Authorization, Asks to "Keep Families Together"

Jul 25, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
When the Dust Rises “When the Dust Rises” is an anthology of written and photographic submissions from Mount Vernon migrant youth, some as young as 11, who participate in the Mount Vernon…
MCN CEO Karen Mountain holding an unselfie sign for giving tuesday

35 Years of Caring: Celebrating Karen Mountain, RN, MCN's Leader and Defender of Health Justice

Jul 24, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“I always knew I wanted to go into health care,” says Karen Mountain, MBA, MSN, RN, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Chief Executive Officer, the first and only leader that MCN has had since its…
MCN CEO Karen Mountain and Board Member Marsha Griffin at the border

"People Are Just Trying to Survive": MCN's Dr. Laszlo Madaras Reflects After Returning from the Border

Jul 23, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
July is a time of reflection for Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Migrant Clinicians Network. A quarter-century ago, in July, 1994, he traveled to Rwanda to serve the urgent health…
Position Statement: MCN Condemns Trump Administration Announcement of ICE Raids

Position Statement: MCN Condemns Trump Administration Announcement of ICE Raids

Jun 20, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States.” -President Trump, via Twitter, June 17, 2019Migrant…
Greene County Health Care Staff

Diabetes, Disasters, Late Night Outreach: The Life of a Migrant & Neighborhood Health Nurse in North Carolina

Jun 5, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“It’s very, very busy this time a year.” That’s the update from Gena Byrd, RN, a nurse with Greene County Health Care, a community health center in North Carolina. One of the true migrant health…
Woman looks out from under umbrella

Ghettoization of the Migrant Population: Perspective from Dr. John Ghertner

Jun 4, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
John Ghertner, MD, has been living and working as a physician for the migrant community in the Finger Lakes region of New York State since around 1980. His integration into the community -- he says…
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MCN Statement: Detention Facilities are Inappropriate for Children

May 24, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
The repeated and avoidable deaths of migrant children in detention is unconscionable. We at Migrant Clinicians Network demand immediate implementation of greater safeguards and better conditions…
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The Bandana Project: Art Activism to Raise Awareness of Sexual Violence Against Farmworker Women

Apr 25, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last Tuesday, Roxana Pineda, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Ventanilla de Salud Coordinator, set out crisp white bandanas and an assortment of fabric markers, around a long table. Here at the…
Man and child look through border fence

The US-Mexico Border Then and Now, with Timothy Dunn

Apr 22, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
(This image is licensed under: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode) “Historically, we’re nowhere near the levels we were, at the turn of the century,” noted Timothy Dunn,…
Child looks at border fence

From the Border: Refugees and Their Health Needs, with Dr. Marsha Griffin

Apr 4, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
What’s happening at the border bridges? Dr. Griffin explains that, typically, an immigrant who wishes to seek asylum approaches the center of a walking bridge that crosses the Rio Grande to the US…