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DACA Health Care Workers Await Supreme Court Ruling

Immigration

‘My patients really don’t care about my immigration status’ — This nurse is one of 30,000 DACA recipients working on the front lines of COVID-19, but the Trump admin could change everything.

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Connected Stories

  • What Happens When Graduation is a Dead End

    Without DACA or a pathway to citizenship, hundreds of thousands of young undocumented people cannot realize their full potential—to our collective detriment.

    Immigration, and Education
  • Undocumented and Uninsured

    Healthcare in the United States has largely been treated as a privilege reserved for citizens who could afford it; in most states, undocumented immigrants are unilaterally excluded. But individual exclusion has a collective cost.

    Immigration, and Health
  • Scapegoating Undocumented Immigrants Threatens Our Democracy

    Justifying voter suppression by falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants commit voter fraud disenfranchises citizens of color; unconstitutional efforts to depress immigrants’ participation in the census undercounts entire communities.

    Immigration, and Social Justice

From Our Network

  • Terminating DACA during the pandemic would be a callous error in judgment

    Writing in The Washington Post Laurene Powell Jobs recognizes the critical role of health-care workers — and more than 200,000 other Dreamers in occupations deemed essential — underscores the stakes of the Supreme Court’s imminent decision on DACA.

    The Washington Post

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