Thread by @TexasTribune

1/ As an emergency room nurse in El Paso, Josue Tayub is regularly exposed to patients infected with the novel coronavirus.

A pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling on DACA will decide whether he and thousands of health care workers can continue their jobs.

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2/ Tayub was brought to the U.S. from Mexico by his father 20 years ago and works under the Obama-era DACA program.

He is one of about 652,900 DACA recipients in the U.S., including about 108,000 in Texas, according to @MigrationPolicy.

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3/ In 2017, @realdonaldtrump said he was ending DACA, and after a series of court battles, the Supreme Court is expected to make a decision on the program’s fate this year.

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4/ The Supreme Court could issue a number of rulings, including:
+ Agree with lower courts that Trump ended the program illegally
+ Allow DACA to continue.
+ Allow the program to end but let current DACA recipients work

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5/ As they wait for a decision, DACA recipients are filling essential roles during the coronavirus pandemic.

According to a legal services organization and the @NILC, 27,000 DACA recipients are health care workers, including about 4,300 people in Texas.

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6/ “If they decide to get rid of DACA, everything that I worked hard for is going to disappear, and I love working as a nurse. I love living here in the States,” Tayub said.
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7/7 If the program ends, Tayub would need to wait and hope for a solution from Congress — or a new administration in 2021.

For now, tens of thousands of DACA recipients like Tayub will remain unsettled until the Supreme Court’s decision.

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