When, as a doctor, I think of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), I think first, with anger, of all the people who have been disappeared from the health clinic where I work.

I’m an internal medicine physician, a primary care doctor for adults. Half the patients I see don’t have any insurance and don’t have the documentation they would need to get it. For the past seven years, I have seen such patients in a health clinic that’s part of a community center in Baltimore, Maryland. I have worked at that clinic through President Donald Trump’s first term, through President Joe Biden’s presidency, and now into Trump’s second term.

The life of undocumented immigrants — and their road to health care — is never easy. I am acutely aware of what it means for us to lack a national health care

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