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there’s 30 000 daca recipients
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that are in the healthcare workforce
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that are helping fight
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covet at the moment i am an emt an
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emergency medical technician
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i work in an ambulance in new york i’m
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working as
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a housekeeper we’re giving out bags
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to people that don’t actually have work
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right now i’m a paramedic
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for the city of houston i am also a daca
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recipient
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i have been in the united states for
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about 20 years now
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19.8 million immigrants are part of the
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essential workforce
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in the u.s i take very good pride of
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my job thousands of health care workers
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in the us
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under the daca program face the
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possibility of losing their jobs and
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even getting deported we’re taking
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people out of the country you wouldn’t
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believe how bad these people
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are my sister she’s working in the
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market
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i’m very scared about her
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loss
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people that are making masks you know
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for us
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that are immigrants there’s a lot of us
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out there you know helping out
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the center for migration study says
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foreign-born workers will be
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essential to the united states economic
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recovery
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these aren’t people these are animals
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families that have lost their job
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families that are maybe now caring for
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an elder
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now have been let go
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no benefit of stimulus there’s no
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opportunity for unemployment insurance
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if they’ve been working i know we put
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our life on risk if there are no workers
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and it’s impossible to sustain that work
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then there’s no food
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if the people who do this type of job
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stop working
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it’ll be devastating we have so much to
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offer
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to this country what makes me different
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is that work permit and a social
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security card
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this is what i love to do and i would
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put my life in place for others
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immigrants play a big role in this
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country
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you
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