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Rural Emergency Care Is Struggling to Keep Up With ICE Detention Demand

Records of hundreds of 911 calls illustrate the weight of immigration detention on emergency services.

Emergency ambulance seen from windshield of car.

The Moshannon Valley EMS, a nonprofit in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, is one of many rural emergency services across the country dealing with an increase in detained immigrants. Kainaz Amaria/NOTUS

By Jackie Llanos

June 24, 2026 05:50 a.m.

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