If Brenda, a 30-year-old agricultural worker in Goodyear, Arizona, suddenly comes down with symptoms of the 2019 novel coronavirus, she’ll think twice about seeking treatment. “I might go just because it’s not normal for me, but I will be scared to have the government monitor me. They just might do more
If Brenda, a 30-year-old agricultural worker in Goodyear, Arizona, suddenly comes down with symptoms of the 2019 novel coronavirus, she’ll think twice about seeking treatment.
“People fear—and it’s a very valid fear—that if you’re providing your information to any government entity, that somehow will be shared with the feds, or the feds will have access to it,” she said. Whatever their reasonable concern may be—be it a crime, a request for financial aid, or a health scare—“folks don’t report, and would rather stay silent,” she explained.
Story continuesIn other words, a novel health scare is hitting one of America’s largest immigrant communities even as people have every reason to be more fearful than ever of seeking help. “Any time you get services where they ask for your address, phone number, and social security number, there’s a pretty understandable concern that people aren’t going to come in,” said Dr. Matthew Wynia, director of the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
To make matters worse, if infected migrants are rounded up by federal authorities, such crowded living conditions may also be present in ICE detention facilities, which could make them breeding grounds for the novel coronavirus. The CDC reported last year that there were 898 cases of mumps among people in ICE lockup between September 2018 and August 2019.
The Daily Beast reached out to ICE several times for this story, asking if preparations had been made to keep infected detainees isolated, or whether cohorting was the only plan. ICE public affairs officer Britney L. Walker said only the following: “At this time, I can confirm there are currently no detainees in ICE custody with confirmed 2019 novel coronavirus.
This is the exact mental calculus Claudia Lujan performed. A 31-year-old employee of a medical transport company in Phoenix, and an undocumented immigrant, she told The Daily Beast the message that seeking care is critical has sunk in. “The Spanish news has done a great job covering the facts and relaying how serious it is,” she explained.
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