Sarah True

Health reporter. Now freelance, past @baltimorebanner. Former medical SW & health policy analyst. PNW native, proud #firstgen [email protected]

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

Johan "had aspirations to get ahead, a lot of dreams to fulfill" his father said. His son worked two jobs, he said, and would leave for the first at 1am, get off later in the morning, then work delivering DoorDash afterward. He was diligent and dedicated to his work, Durán said.

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

An emotional interview on Blu Radio in Colombia with Omar Durán, father of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, the 26 y.o. Colombian immigrant and father murdered by ICE on Monday in Biddeford, Maine:
https://t.co/PmA60ggnXm
🧵

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

Omar Durán said his son "left the country to make a future for his family, his wife and his daughter." Johan Guerrero was a "conscientious, loving person who loved his family [and] his 3 y.o. daughter very much. He worked hard for their sake," Durán said.

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

I’m sharing an actual recent peer-to-peer call that shows what physicians and patients face when trying to get a surgery approved. This call felt as absurd as it sounds.

The peer-to-peer call was to advocate for surgery to prevent and treat lymphedema for a patient with breast cancer. Her risk is high and we can perform a surgery to lower it.

The doctors from the insurance company on the call were an ophthalmologist with a subspecialty in oculoplastic surgery and a plastic surgeon who currently has a cosmetic practice. Neither doctor has ever performed lymph venous bypass…the surgery I was trying to get approved for my patient.

Neither doctor would provide their name or license number.

At the conclusion of the call, the doctors told me that they didn’t have the power to make a determination or decision to perform the surgery. They were just there to inform me of United’s decision to deny it.

The Medical Decision was not up to the doctors on the call. It had already been made by United.

So here I am, appealing again.

Medical decisions should be made by doctors who are well informed and patient-centered. Patients deserve access to the care that they paid for with their premiums.

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

I wouldn't have been able to attend grad school w/out grad PLUS loans. IME, 90% of grad students already come from class privilege. Now the few of us w/ working class backgrounds will be shut out. Our perspective was already exotic; now it will be extinct.
https://t.co/6mX8ICo6ch

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

Gov. Newsom dares Tom Homan to make good on threats to arrest him:

“He knows where to find me. But you know what? Lay your hands off 4 y.o. girls that are trying to get educated. Lay your hands off people just trying to live their lives.”

https://t.co/Ttg0h8B1YL via @msnbc

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

Great piece @baltimoresun on ICE's targeting of immigrants going through the (LONG) court process of obtaining legal status in the U.S. -- many of whom have obtained permission to work -- while simply going about their day or attending scheduled hearings.
https://t.co/YZzY9ngUdi

[Candidly Tiff @tify330]

Senator Van Hollen saying this earlier is likely why he got to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Smart move to say this to the press.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is the first habeas petition directly seeking release of a person detained at CECOT.

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

Wow. Tomorrow’s hearing with judge Xinis should be interesting.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Todays mandated court filing by the Trump Admin. in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case includes this passage quoting the President of El Salvador

And a YouTube link

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

@allhaeleah @washingtonpost Awesome, congrats!

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

@MacFarlaneNews Thank you for your reporting.

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

Good piece, except for the use of the word “undocumented.” If you’ve claimed asylum, have a case pending, and have been granted permission to work in U.S., you are not in fact undocumented.

Elsy Berrios is an asylee, not an undocumented immigrant. It’s an important distinction.

[The Baltimore Banner @BaltimoreBanner]

Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window https://t.co/waUPkLAeQh

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is a friendly reminder that ICE is not entirely immune to the court of public opinion.

[Jared Holt @jaredlholt]

60 Minutes“could not find criminal records” for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the “vast majority are for non-violent offenses.” Trump admin still insists they’re “terrorists.”

Moral bankruptcy
https://t.co/4eBW8cmAuV

[CBS News @CBSNews]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had criticized detaining the family while their case was working its way through the U.S. immigration system. https://t.co/A64mIHJ5tN

[The Baltimore Sun @baltimoresun]

A Salvadoran asylum-seeker and Westminster mother of two, Elsy Berrios, was removed from her car and detained March 31 by law enforcement officers who refused to show her a warrant for her arrest. Berrios’ attorney told The Baltimore Sun her client was held in ICE’s Baltimore holding room for one night, then transferred to a privately operated prison and ICE detention center in Pennsylvania. Read more: https://t.co/dJFqohoea6

🎥: Courtesy of Griffith Immigration Law

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

@RepJohnnyO Speaking of democracy, have you seen this? Any statement?
https://t.co/B7TuzcAttj

[Sarah True @truesarahR]

Thank you, @baltimoresun, for covering this!

52 y.o. Elsy Berrios was abducted w/ no warrant and reportedly has asylum case pending. She’s being held in PA, the gov’t has not filed charges, and she has not been able to speak w/ her attorney https://t.co/VPFkPWGfZF