by Marcus Baram | Nov 11, 2025 | Department of Veterans Affairs, health care, News, Privatization, Trump Administration, VA, Veterans, Veterans Health Administration, VHA
“Our staffing in the ER is beyond dire now,” said Heather Fallon, a nurse in the emergency department at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago who had long been dreading the arrival of Sept. 30, the day the fiscal year came to an end. That was the day she says she lost two nurses — and the facility lost nine staffers in total — whose contracts ended…
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by Rory Fanning | Nov 11, 2025 | Afghanistan, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, ICE, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Op-Ed, Veterans, Veterans Day, Veterans for Peace
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) helicopters will undoubtedly be circling my neighborhood looking for roofers and landscapers this “Veterans Day,” just as they have been for weeks. In the U.S., you’re an easy mark when you have brown skin and your job demands that you labor out in the open. My town, located just outside of Chicago, has been crawling with ICE agents or soldiers (the…
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