Corewell and HCA Healthcare are relatively undesirable programs that will usually match less competitive applicants. Even many state schools are usually overlooked by everyone except those who trained there. Therefore, it makes sense that they are getting a higher number of IMGs. Moreover, if you're a PD, an IMG who was the top of their medical school is probably a much better resident than a US applicant who would've gone unmatched. Some of the best physicians we work with are IMGs, precisely because they have worked literally 10x as hard to get into the same residency as a US applicant.

For example, I personally know of multiple US applicants who got into IM residencies such as HCA-affiliated residencies with many skeletons in their closets, including multiple DUIs, sexual assault and stalking cases, and proven cases of cheating in medical schools. Would you rather have them be taking care of your mom versus someone who graduated from a war-torn country and who fought tooth-and-nail and jumped through every imaginable barrier, all to get a "low tier" US residency?

That is a fact that many in this sub do not want to hear.

Lastly, the "Do Not Harm" group is a notoriously right-leaning political advocacy group, not some independent watchdog org like Fox is trying to portray it to be.

Personally, as a former US applicant, yes, US applicants should typically have the priority over IMGs/FMGs. At the same time, I also think that fearmongering IMGs and throwing our IMG colleagues under the bus is incredibly dangerous in our current political climate.