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Posted on 05/14/2020 2:27:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The US Supreme Court is considering a case that could put hundreds and thousands of people who were brought into the country illegally as children at risk of deportation. Some of those are healthcare workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
At the beginning of April a long line of police cars snaked slowly around a hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with their blue lights flashing in the bright sun. It was a tribute, they said, to the healthcare workers risking their lives to treat patients with Covid-19.
But for Jonathan Vargas Andres, an ICU nurse treating Covid patients in that hospital, these grand gestures feel somewhat empty.
He's worked in intensive care for four years in the same unit as his wife and brother - who are nurses too - and the past week has seen a spike in cases on the ward.
Jonathan is also undocumented.
"I try not to think about it because if I think about it for too long I get tired," Jonathan says. "I've basically had to zone it out for my own health."
He speaks deliberately in a soft, southern drawl. "It's fear more than anything."
Jonathan is a recipient of Daca - or the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals. It's an Obama-era ruling from 2012 that shielded young people who were brought to the US illegally as children from deportation.
It provided them with work and study permits. Jonathan came from Mexico when he was 12.
In 2017, President Trump decided to end the Daca programme.
The Supreme Court is now considering a series of cases that challenge Trump's decision and is expected to release its rulings before the end of June on whether stopping the programme was unlawful.
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wahhhh, wahhhh..
Illegal immigrant criminals that are left in the country could kill people. Some of which may be doctors. So we should deport everybody.
DACA = Deport ALL Criminal Aliens
For every “heroic nurse”, about how many gang bangers, welfare cheats, and illegal voters do you think we have?
Jonathan Vargas Andres can treat COVID patients in his native Mexico.
Bingo....buh bye
What part of “deferred” do they not understand?
He is an adult, and knows the rules.
Goodbye!
Plenty of Covid patients in Mexico, which could use another good nurse.
I don’t care
They should all be deported.
JoMa
Actually, he extended it a time or two, then let it expire, Brit-Wits.
“Population correspondent”?
Yes, from the Margaret Sanger School of Journalism.
They need nurses in Mexico too.
What I don’t understand is why in 8 years have these people not applied for and gotten into the Green Card process. If they haven’t taken steps to become legal than either they don’t want to or can’t qualify IMHO.
Actually hospital censuses are way down except for a relative few hotspots.
Medical workers of all stripes are being furloughed. My nieces husband is a physician and he didn’t work once for three weeks. My PA DIL had hours greatly reduced. Another niece’s husband is a PA and he was laid off for almost 4 weeks. Just going back now on a limited basis
If this DACA illegal goes home, that opens up a job for a US citizen
He should just be grateful for the free education he received the first 12 years of his life.....and possibly secondary education too
I approve of nurses, and I approve of treating COVID patients. Let’s do the humane thing - deport this criminal so he can continue his nursing work in his own country and treat the even needier patients there. Deport all illegals. No exceptions.
Cry me a river. There are many nurses, US citizens, who went to New York to fill manpower needs for the corona virus from other states who will now be charged NY State taxes and through 2020 after they return To their home states. Cuomo stuck them with that after the fact.
Report on THAT, BBC.
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