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Who will care for them?
My Parents, in their 80s live in upstate, extremely rural Pennsylvania.
If it weren't for foreign born doctors, I don't know who would take care of them.
American born and trained Doctors have gravitated, to a large extent to urban areas.
What Will Happen to Undocumented Doctors?
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is an Obama-era policy that granted a work permit and temporary protection from deportation to children that came to the U.S. with unregistered parents. Now, the fate of over 750,000 people is unclear. Donald Trump said he would repeal the policy during his campaign. He later promised something “that’s going to make people happy and proud.”
DACA recipients are now pursuing advanced degrees and full-fledged careers. Sixty-five are in medical school in the United Sates, and approximately half of them are enrolled in the Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. The Atlantic spoke with these medical students and residents about the anxiety surrounding the future. “I think about it for about five seconds, I find it a little unbearable to think about, and then I forget about it because it just doesn’t fit in my brain,” says Marina DiBartolo, a medical resident at the University of Pennsylvania. “Right now, there’s no path to legalization.”
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.