Healthcare job boards should not profit from recruiting doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals into detention facilities accused of medical neglect, pediatric harm, and unsafe conditions.

Every healthcare professional takes an oath to protect human life, reduce suffering, and provide care with dignity.

Yet major job boards and healthcare recruiting platforms continue to help ICE detention facilities recruit doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, counselors, and other healthcare professionals to staff facilities where children and families have suffered documented medical neglect, psychological trauma, and dangerous living conditions.

We are calling on Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, PracticeLink, Health eCareers, DocCafe, HospitalRecruiting.com, PracticeMatch, CareerMD, and other healthcare recruiting platforms to immediately stop accepting and promoting healthcare job advertisements for ICE detention facilities and family detention centers.

These platforms are not simply posting jobs. They are actively helping detention operators recruit physicians, registered nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, therapists, counselors, and other medical personnel whose labor is essential to keeping detention facilities operational.

More than 70 physicians, pediatricians, psychiatrists, emergency medicine doctors, family medicine physicians, hospitalists, and other healthcare professionals have already signed a letter expressing concern about medical care and conditions at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. The signatories include pediatricians, child psychiatrists, emergency physicians, infectious disease specialists, surgeons, neurologists, and other medical professionals who believe the documented conditions deserve greater scrutiny and accountability.

The reason is simple: healthcare workers should not be recruited into systems that repeatedly fail to meet basic standards of care.

At the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, physicians and oversight officials have documented cases involving children who suffered serious medical complications after delays or failures in treatment. These cases include a five-year-old autistic child whose severe constipation reportedly went untreated for ten days, infants experiencing respiratory distress without timely escalation of care, and a child whose ruptured eardrum followed a misdiagnosis and delayed treatment. A coalition of physicians cited these and other concerns in a letter to CoreCivic's Chief Medical Officer.

Independent oversight has also documented unsanitary conditions, overcrowding, sleep deprivation, inadequate educational opportunities, and psychological harm to detained children. Physicians signing the letter noted that these conditions directly conflict with the standards and recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which has stated that there is no evidence that any amount of detention is safe for children.

Reports from attorneys, physicians, advocates, and government oversight bodies have raised concerns about delayed medical treatment, inadequate pediatric care, infectious disease risks, poor living conditions, and lasting psychological trauma experienced by detained children and families. These are not isolated allegations. They form a growing body of evidence that demands accountability from every institution helping sustain this system.

Even as these concerns continue to mount, detention contractors continue recruiting healthcare workers through mainstream employment platforms. We are specifically asking recruiting platforms to stop carrying healthcare job advertisements from detention contractors including CoreCivic, The GEO Group, Akima, KVG, and other companies that operate or provide services to ICE detention facilities.

Every physician, nurse, therapist, psychologist, social worker, or healthcare administrator recruited into these facilities helps sustain a detention system that medical experts, pediatricians, and human rights advocates have repeatedly warned is causing harm to children and families.

By continuing to advertise these positions, healthcare recruiting platforms risk becoming known not as places that connect professionals with healing careers, but as companies that help staff detention facilities accused of harming children and families.

Healthcare recruiting platforms routinely refuse advertisements connected to fraud, discrimination, unsafe practices, and other conduct that conflicts with their values. The same standard should apply here.

We are asking healthcare recruiting platforms to:

1. Stop accepting job advertisements for healthcare positions at ICE detention facilities and family detention centers.

2. Remove existing advertisements for physicians, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, therapists, counselors, and other healthcare positions connected to ICE detention operations.

3. Establish policies prohibiting the recruitment of healthcare workers for facilities with documented patterns of medical neglect, unsafe conditions, or human rights violations.

4. Conduct independent reviews of detention-related healthcare recruitment practices.

5. Publicly disclose any partnerships, contracts, or recruitment agreements involving ICE detention contractors.

6. Adopt ethical recruiting standards that recognize the unique responsibilities of healthcare professionals and the obligation to do no harm.

Healthcare workers should be healing people, not helping legitimize systems that medical professionals themselves have warned are causing harm.

Detention facilities cannot operate without medical staff. Every doctor, nurse, psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, social worker, and healthcare professional recruited through these platforms helps make continued detention possible. If job boards refuse to help recruit healthcare workers into these facilities, detention operators will face greater difficulty staffing them. That accountability matters.

Sign this petition and tell Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, PracticeLink, Health eCareers, DocCafe, HospitalRecruiting.com, PracticeMatch, CareerMD, and other healthcare recruiting platforms:

Stop helping ICE detention centers hire doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers.