The politicization of immigration, heightened by the crisis at the US-Mexico border and amplified by the gravity of the 2024 US presidential election, has profound public health consequences not only for immigrants but also ethnic and racial minority groups. To draw attention to and understand this state of affairs, we use a new social science concept, migration stigma, which emerged from a scientific forum that brought together more than 30 scholars from the fields of stigma and international migration. Through syntheses of a variety of literature, scholars identified stigma as a mechanism linking societal politics to health. Thus, in the sections below, we discuss migration stigma in the context of the US election and identify opportunities for the development of structural competencies for physicians as well as future research on migration stigma and health.