ACP offers recommendations to ease impact of Trump’s travel ban

The ACP, along with 11 other health care organizations, recently sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly urging that President Donald J. Trump’s executive order on immigration be overturned, offering recommendations to replace the travel ban with non-discriminatory policies that support families, public health and medical education, according to a press release.In addition to the ACP, the organizations that drafted the letter included the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Physicians, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, American Society of Hematology, American Society of Nephrology, American Thoracic Society, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Renal Physicians Association, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, Society of Critical Care Medicine and Society of General Internal Medicine.