Bernal was among the 32 DACA recipients at the Stritch School of Medicine, which was the first to explicitly invite and admit students with DACA status beginning in 2014. On Tuesday, the day Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech announcing the end of the program, Bernal was working a shift at an emergency department. If Congress doesn’t pass something soon, Bernal’s medical career would be stalled ― and his hopes of serving underserved communities along with it. Medical professionals urged Trump not to discontinue the DACA program and are now also urging Congress to step in to protect Dreamers, potentially by passing the Dream Act to grant them legal status. “We’re going to do everything we can to get them through medical school no matter what,” he said.

Source: Huffington Post September 11, 2017 09:45 UTC