Jesús Díaz, a 61-year-old pre-diabetic, was desperate to obtain a citation at a coronavirus vaccination site in the Valley of the Great Rio, Texas.
But when the Mexican immigrant was documented legally in front of the line of the evacuation clinic of the University of Texas in the Valley of the Great River last week, after a hopeful time of four hours, un staff member the day that is not vacated series.
“The vacancies here are exclusive to city residents and legal residents of that country,” Diaz told The Washington Post, saying he was a staff member. ‘No podemos ayudarte. It’s a lot, but these are the rules ”.
No residency and care are required to receive a dose of vaccine in Texas.
Pero aunque Díaz lo sabía, also the fact that the members of the staff can call the immigration authorities if they cause a scene, if you have a letter of discussion, place your note in the file and be away from home.
“I’ve been so angry and gone at the same time,” Diaz told The Washington Post. “I feel discriminated against, but I do not want to insist.”
Racism, discrimination and health risks
Díaz no estaba solo. At least 14 people have been rescued due to errors in the evacuation sites of the university due to their residence or migrant status, dijo un portavoz de la universidad a The Post, ilustrando una de las muchas barreras que enfrentan los stadadounendes indocumentados para vacunarse.
Health experts say that an erroneous information gap has been directed to the documented community, as well as enforcing persistent issues that authorities can verify their migration status in clinics.
Among Latin immigrants, false claims about vacancies are being spread rapidly like the virus.
Of these, the university is discredited by the dose of the vaccine in Diaz and other eligible patients, and agree that its staff will receive incorrect instructions on how to interpret the gui state.
“We hope that we will have a greater number of students, and we will profoundly fail to maintain our state of excellence at a time when our community needs us more,” said John H. Krouse, dean of the university’s Faculty of Medicine, in a statement. jueves.
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Undocumented immigrants have been rescued for the vacancies
Joe Biden’s governor promised that the undocumented immigrants tend to have the same access to the vacancies against the coronavirus as the citizens or legal residents. It has also promised that the evacuation sites will be free immigration control zones.
Pero some states have contradicted the position of the Biden administration on the subject.
The last step, the governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts, had been criticized after deciding that no hope that the undocumented immigrants who work in carnival facilities will be evacuated both the state program. Poco despues, a Ricketts assistant clears his comments to signal that athose without legal tender status who hope to reach the final of the file.
Rechazo y temor
UT Health Rio Grande Valley, with campus on the frontier between United States and Mexico, is obliged to disclose after that Abraham Díaz said on February 20 that his father had a vacancy because it was undocumented.
Its history provoked criticism of UTRGV in social speeches and a protest by La Unión Del Pueblo Entero, a community organization founded by the Leader of Civil Rights César Chávez, donde Díaz is a member of staff.
UT Health RGV dijo en un communicado el jueves que “Currently we have around 14 people affected by our bugs”, and all institutions are being reprogrammed.
“We hope that we will have more of ours, and we will profoundly not maintain our state of excellence at a time when our community is ours in need”, dijo UT Health RGV in the communication, which follows an initial response to Diaz and one discovers the Saturday that LUPE said was inadequate.
Update 1: @utrgv my father bc clearly discriminated against his immigration status. They gave more than 20 doses, but imagine how many unprotected people were turned away. What my father wants is a statement saying that undocufolks will be vaccinated. https://t.co/S2ElmCWBva
– Abe Díaz (@_AbeDiaz_) 21 February 2021
Pero Díaz dijo a The Post que ya no desea volver a ese sitio luego del humillante episodio.
“Really do not want to go all out”, dijo. “Me da vergüenza volver. Quiero-buskar otra option op donde me me vuelva a pasar lo mismo ”.
On Wednesday, the university published a public opinion promising that “UT Health RGV would not allow a single person to be evacuated depending on the residence or migration status of the person”. The university also went out of its way to ensure that the hay was negligently denied the obligation to vacate its residence or migratory status and that it communicated with the school to reprogram its citations.
Díaz says that he hopes that his experience can teach other undocumented immigrants who, in contrast to the injustices, have the opportunity to change things.
“I’ve been listening to you and you’re not hurting me,” he said.