{"id":964,"date":"2020-05-05T08:13:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=964"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:46:01","slug":"reagan-gave-my-father-path-to-citizenship-immigrants-fighting-pandemic-deserve-the-same","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/reagan-gave-my-father-path-to-citizenship-immigrants-fighting-pandemic-deserve-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting American Immigrants&#8217; Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/05\/05\/immigrants-helping-fight-coronavirus-deserve-path-citizenship-column\/3076756001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> USA Today<\/a>, Mirtha shares the story of her father, Perfecto, who migrated from the Dominican Republic to the United States in the early 1980s and who passed away in early April. His story like many other immigrants in the United States exemplifies the strength and determination of people who migrant to the United States. As we have all seen COVID-19 has really impacted immigrant communities and Mirtha notes however, \u201cNow more than ever \u2014 while we battle the coronavirus \u2014 we depend on immigrants to do the jobs many Americans do not want to do.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":902,"template":"","publication_category":[51],"publication_theme":[63,55],"class_list":["post-964","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_category-publications","publication_theme-development","publication_theme-health-equity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}