Posted on 04/10/2020 5:12:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For Aldo Martinez, a paramedic in Fort Myers, Fla., who often works a 37-hour shift, the long days have become routine since the coronavirus pandemic broke out -- several of his colleagues have had to self-quarantine out of fears they may have been exposed to COVID-19.
Aside from filling in for his colleagues, tending to the dozens of calls he receives each day, and keeping himself safe on the job, Aldo feels an extra degree of pressure as one of more nearly 680,000 young immigrants whose ability to work in the country would be threatened if the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is not reinstated. The Supreme Court has been hearing oral arguments in a case challenging the Trump Administration’s 2017 decision to end DACA, an Obama-era program which allows young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. under the age of 16, who don’t have a criminal record, and who have completed or are attending school to pay a fee and register with the government.
The program represents only a small percentage of so-called "Dreamers", or young people who came to the country as children.
Many DACA recipients are in mixed-status families and are helping bear the financial responsibilities for their parents, or other relatives who are undocumented and aren’t covered by health insurance.
“It’s a feeling of stress on top of the stress,” Martinez told ABC News, adding that his absence in the medical field would add to the shortage of medical personnel across the county. “If DACA ends, we’re putting a strain on an already strained system. We are putting the safety of the United States population at risk.”
DACA recipients perform a wide range of jobs in the medical field including working as home health aides, paramedics, pharmacy technicians, nurses and physicians, among other roles.
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I’m sure their home countries will benefit from their expertise. Now GTFO.
Their status??? Their “status” is that they have absolutely no legal...or moral...right to be here,any more than I have a right to be in whatever cesspool country they come from.
Gee I should have asked about MY status while being a combat medic 1985-1993.....ya know they are calling shelf stockers heroes now
Go home.
And take the reporter/editor/publisher with you.
Doesn’t Mexico need experienced Paramedics? Especially those trained at the expense of some other nation’s taxpayers?
Thanks for the help.
Now get out.
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Utterly appropriate that you qualified Disney as part of the source.
This propaganda falls under “Mickey mouse news”. Good to know what the enemy is trying to pull.
Globalism is dead. The left simply doesn’t understand why people are shoveling dirt on their faces.
Simple solution:
Offer them a path to a Green Card through service in the military. This has been done before. The Army Medical Corps could surely use some experienced hands.
You should worry.
Out with you.
anyone who enters the country illegally should never have a path to citizenship. Maybe permanent residency in some cases.
They have the same status I would have if I decided to crash on your sofa.
This is on the parents of the DACA ‘kids’ who violated our laws.
Live with the consequences. Deal with your parents.
In NO WAY should they be allowed to sponsor ANY relatives or non-US citizen in their lifetimes.
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