Undocumented immigrants working on pandemic's front lines fear for health and home coronavirus
cited federal warnings about"the risk of a pandemic" as a reason to keep DACA recipients contributing to a"robust health workforce."
"Health care providers on the front lines of our nation’s fight against COVID-19 rely significantly upon DACA recipients to perform essential work," it said.That effort took on political overtones Sunday when Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden'Just my calling'In Northern California, Ana Cueva, 27, has been working 12-hour shifts as a nurse in the intensive care unit of a community hospital.
“It’s been hectic. It’s been crazy. We’re learning as we go,” he says. If DACA recipients were to lose their ability to work, he says, it would"create more chaos in an already chaotic situation.”, about an hour outside New York City, a registered nurse who came from South Korea at age 11 lives in fear that he might infect his wife and parents. His hospital, like many, faces a shortage of protective equipment.
For Velasquez, a native of the Philippines who came to the USA when she was 11, the coronavirus has been a rude awakening after five months as a physical therapist. Her hospital set up three tents to prepare for the expected influx of patients.
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