Immigration law extension averts staffing ‘crisis’ in border states
Federal officials have issued a one-year extension of the deadline for Canadian and Mexican health care workers to obtain more rigorous credentials before working in the United States, preventing what hospitals in border states such as Maine say would have resulted in crisis level staffing shortages, the Associated Press reports. The law, which requires non-physician health care workers from Canada and Mexico to pass proficiency and English-competency exams in order to earn U.S. licenses, was expected to result in a…