{"id":1686,"date":"2019-12-18T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2019-12-19T05:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:22:37","slug":"doctors-arrested-attempting-to-illegally-vaccinate-children-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Arrested Attempting To Illegally Vaccinate Children at Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Doctors wanting to give migrants flu vaccines arrested during protest<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BY LIBERTYZABALA<br \/>\nFOX5<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=A3ZTN3aTE662amGEyZ_taE7mA8NL_zEt&amp;pbid=7f13b2020e924f7bb1bc00c770ee5d24&amp;pcode=RoYjUyOjnvZ0A55bciBqnIL8mvIH\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CHULA VISTA, Calif. &#8212; Six protesters, including at least two doctors, were arrested Tuesday outside of a Border Patrol facility in Chula Vista as they demanded agents allow them to give migrants flu shots.<\/p>\n<p>The physicians said they wouldn&#8217;t leave until agents let them into the facilities to administer free flu shots to migrants. Some of them laid in the streets until agents removed them. Protesters chanted, &#8220;no shame!&#8221; and &#8220;no more flu deaths!&#8221; as agents arrested them.<\/p>\n<p>A group called Doctors For Camp Closures are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/2019\/12\/09\/doctors-attempt-to-vaccinate-migrants-in-detention-centers-cbp-says-no\/\">demanding<\/a>\u00a0agents let them give free flu shots to migrants. They say it&#8217;s in response to the death of a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody.<\/p>\n<p>CBP says it has never been a practice to administer vaccines, and the policy is not new.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Deinas with Doctors for Camp Closures said she met with agents and the sector chief to once again request they let doctors in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gave us the same kind of excuses that we&#8217;ve been hearing all along about feasibility and policy really being their barriers but they wanted to express they did care about this issue &#8230; as much as I would love to believe that they were sincere I really won&#8217;t know that until they do something tangible,&#8221; Deinas said.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/2019\/12\/10\/doctors-wanting-to-give-migrants-flu-vaccines-arrested-during-protest\/\">https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/2019\/12\/10\/doctors-wanting-to-give-migrants-flu-vaccines-arrested-during-protest\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors wanting to give migrants flu vaccines arrested during protest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}