ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Droves of American nurses are packing up and taking their life-saving skills north, opting for Canada over President Donald Trump’s America. Amid deep cuts to public health and medical research , as well as the declassification of nursing as a “professional” degree, a wave of American nurses has fled to Canada, NPR reports. For many, Canada’s progressive policies and single-payer health care are a draw, according to the outlet. Others left over fears that political tensions in Trump’s America are boiling over into violence. Amy Miller, a nurse practitioner, noted that federal immigration agents killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti, 37, just a few days after she moved to Canada. Read more at The Daily Beast.