MATT SEDENSKY National Writer.

A woman uses a walker as she exits an assisted living building at the Toby and Leon Cooperman Sinai Residences, July 4, 2025, in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Nursing homes struggle with Trump’s immigration crackdown

Nursing homes around the U.S. say they’re feeling the effects of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. As Trump has rescinded work authorizations for various groups of immigrants with Temporary Protected Status, long-term care employees have been pulled from their jobs. Meantime, facilities around the country say they’re seeing a narrowing of the pipeline of potential candidates. Some homes who had tapped refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine and elsewhere are lamenting the pause of refugee arrivals. Others who sought out nurses in Nigeria and the Philippines say visa waits are dragging on so long that candidates are choosing other countries.

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Andrei Kozlov, an artist who was taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, speaks with The Associated Press during an interview Monday, May 19, 2025, at his studio in New York.

Freed from Hamas captivity, former hostage tells his story through his paintings

Taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Andrei Kozlov is pouring his experience in captivity onto canvas in an exhibition of paintings. The 28-year-old Russian-born Kozlov was rescued by Israeli Defense Forces last June after about eight months as a hostage. He’s at work in New York on a series of mostly acrylic depictions of his capture, captivity and release that he hopes to show this summer. The paintings focus on dark moments of Kozlov’s life and their colors frequently reflect that. But overjoyed by his freedom, the former hostage says his art is “about hope.”

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