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Join us for the Disaster STS Network’s Fall 2021 virtual tour of Louisiana's Cancer Alley, a corridor of chemical plants along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans with shockin

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  • Emergency response to death threatening or serious illness from the government creates gaps for immigrants to seek residence permits.
  • The significant increase of immigrants from 1998 to 2005 creates complex problems for the system both locally and nationally.
  • Humanitarian reasons stops the illegal immigrants from being deported; however, the increase number of immigrants limited the applicability of the legal protection.

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“The emotionally disturbed patient was punched multiple times in the face by the cops on July 20”

“Pt. was struck in the face by an officer ... pt. spit in the face of an officer, whereupon the officer punched the pt. in the face multiple times”

“After the first round of punches, the patient was "taken off the stretcher to the ground and restrained again, pt. was thrown by ESU again on to my stretcher”