| America's emergency rooms have been on the front lines of the deadly pandemic. Doctors and nurses have risked their lives to provide critical care — and politicians, corporations and regular citizens have rightly expressed their admiration. For Juan Vasquez, an emergency medicine physician in New York, battling a global health crisis came with another source of preoccupation: his DACA status. Vasquez filed three months in advance to renew his DACA status and work permit, but delays caused by the pandemic shutdowns caused his status to expire. Now he has been placed on an unpaid leave of absence. "I am disillusioned and uncertain as to how all this will play out. I never imagined the pandemic would threaten not only the lives of my patients, but also my very ability to care for them," Vasquez writes. His story is a reminder of the urgent need for bipartisan legislation to grant recipients of DACA — which protects the nearly 800,000 people such as Vasquez, who were brought to the United States illegally as children — permanent immigration status. It's time.  (iStock) The DHS is failing to approve renewal requests, throwing the lives of countless Dreamers into chaos. By Juan Vasquez ● Read more » | | | | Biden needs to show some LBJ-like aggressiveness in using Washington leverage when persuasion and rationality are not enough. By Karen Tumulty ● Read more » | | | | There's broad majority support for mask mandates. Except among Republicans. By Greg Sargent ● Read more » | | | It's a sad indictment of our society that children are paying the price for irresponsible adults and reckless policymakers. By Leana Wen ● Read more » | | | | Creating a new anti-mask backlash might not work, but they're going to give it a go. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | | Climate science is complex, and politics abhors complexity. By George Will ● Read more » | | | After a burst of goodwill, can she maintain her hold on power in the cutthroat and often corrupt world of New York state politics? By Helaine Olen ● Read more » | | | | It's going to get cut down from its current $3.5 trillion. But even so, it could be revolutionary. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | |
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