(NewsNation) — The Department of Homeland Security is hiring for more than 40 medical positions in its immigration detention centers across the nation.
Politico first reported the Trump administration’s plans to expand its workforce with doctors, psychologists, nurses, dentists and medical administrators, among others.
As of Wednesday night, there were 48 open job listings in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Health Service Corps on the ICE USA Jobs portal.
Some of the listings include positions located at various ICE detention centers across the country, including in locales where migrant deaths have been reported.
In June, NewsNation reported that a Canadian man who was being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Miami became the 13th person to die in an ICE facility since October after he was found unresponsive.
An additional seven deaths have been announced by the federal agency since, taking the total to 20 deaths in that time.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Washington, a member of the subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, wrote in a social media post that 20 individuals have died under such circumstances since President Donald Trump began his second term.
“Trump’s ICE is detaining people in private prisons that put profit over health. There must be accountability and oversight NOW,” she wrote Friday.
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