{"id":808837,"date":"2026-08-10T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/808837\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:56:14","slug":"healthcare-workers-demand-release-of-maine-medical-center-nurse-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/808837\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare workers demand release of Maine Medical Center nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) \u2014 Healthcare workers in Portland rallied Wednesday to demand the release of a registered nurse they say was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The protest was held in support of Debora Kapisha, a registered nurse at Maine Medical Center. The Maine State Nurses Association said ICE agents detained Kapisha last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kapisha is from Zambia. The union said she is authorized to live and work in the United States while her asylum claim is pending.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer to Louisiana planned, union says<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the union, ICE was planning to transfer Kapisha from Massachusetts, where she was detained, to Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WMTW could not independently verify Kapisha\u2019s immigration status. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Maine Medical Center\u2019s operating group also did not respond.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMTW via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) \u2014 Healthcare workers in Portland rallied Wednesday to demand the release of a registered nurse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[342925,97,252,253,343021,343023,343022],"class_list":["post-808837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-debora-kapisha","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ice-detention-maine","tag-immigration-healthcare-worker","tag-maine-medical-center-nurse-detained"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}