Chukwuweike Gwam has dreamed of being a surgeon since he was a young boy.
After 14 years of undergraduate studies, medical school, and residency, the recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was completing his orthopedic surgery fellowship last year in Brooklyn, New York. This would have been Gwam’s last step before independent practice.
Then, on January 1, the US paused all immigration requests—including work permits, green cards, and family petitions—for immigrants within the US from the 39 countries included in President Donald Trump’s December travel ban. More than 2 million applications have been affected, according to immigration advocacy
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