It is a great story, really. She is realizing her dream to become a doctor, but there is a
problem. The problem is that on September 5, President Trump decided to
abolish DACA, the program that protects Zarna Patel, and in abolishing
it--announcing that he would on March 5 of next year--it meant that she
would then lose the protection she had under the previous Executive
order. What difference does it make? Well, it means that she is then subject
to deportation, but equally important in her life, she loses the right
to legally work in America. You say that she is a student and maybe she
doesn't need to work. Well, as a student, she doesn't qualify for any
Federal assistance because she is undocumented, and as a student in a
medical school, to further your education, you need a residency. We
know a residency means an awful lot of hours of working in a hospital
that is teaching you how to be a doctor and develop your specialty. So
you can't have a residency if you can't legally work in America.
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