Caught Between COVID and DACA
Will the Supreme Court decide to end the program that protects this doctor from deportation?

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Episode Notes
Supreme Court decision days are when Dalia Larios is most nervous. Now a doctor in residency at a hospital in Boston, she spends her time largely thinking about her work. Reading the endless amounts of research being published about COVID-19, studying how her hospital is responding to the pandemic. But it’s those decision days where she finds herself checking her phone a bit more, adding more tabs to her browser. Dr. Larios is a DACA recipient who’s future as a doctor in America currently hangs in the balance at the Supreme Court.
Guest: Dr. Dalia Larios, a doctor doing her residency in Boston.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Danielle Hewitt.