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Commentary: Protect the Dreamers. The US needs doctors-in-training like me

A person holds up a sign as Assembly Member Catalina Cruz, the first former' Dreamer' elected to New York state Assembly, speaks as people gather for a rally to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in Battery Park on June 15, 2022, in New York.

I am a proud undocumented medical student attending the UCLA School of Medicine — a reality that still seems like a dream. It is a reality because of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA. However, the DACA program and its beneficiaries remain in jeopardy as the policy could be ended by a court ruling any day now. If Congress does not pass legislation this year, nearly 700,000 DACA recipients — including teachers, parents, students and nurses

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