Dreamers In Medical School Ask Congress To Help Them So They Can Help Others

Manuel Bernal, a fourth-year medical student, is busy studying and soon will be applying to residency programs in hopes of one day becoming an emergency room physician who serves underserved communities ― he hopes in his home state of Tennessee.Now he is adding another task: lobbying members of Congress to pass a bill protecting young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, like he did.After President Donald Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals progr