DACA Med Students Face Uncertain Futures
“It's yes, then no, then yes, then no.”
Jirayut New Latthivongskorn’s first day at Harvard University’s public-health school didn’t go as planned. After class on Monday, instead of networking with the Cambridge elite, he spent hours on the phone frantically strategizing with other undocumented health professionals, who had become worried after days of speculation that President Trump is considering revoking DACA. “Looking like a crazy person in Harvard square,” he wrote on Facebook, “trying to brace for impact.”
Born in Bangkok, Latthivongskorn came to the United States at age nine, and like more than 750,000 other immigrants in the Obama-era program, he will lose
