Doctors now fake diagnoses to protect patients as Trump's ICE crosses 'dangerous line'

A doctor in Chicago was forced to make an impossible choice, Jennifer Obel wrote for Slate: make up a diagnosis to protect a 29-year-old Venezuelan man from being seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The patient, wrote Obel, "was brought into a Chicago emergency room" by ICE, with a "deep gash above his eyebrow, bruised ribs, and a head injury," while four agents stood waiting to take him away after being looked over.

The doctor, identified only as "Dr. N" to protect her from reprisal...