The Story Of Chef Alfonso Verdis

The Story Of Chef Alfonso Verdis
The Story Of Chef Alfonso Verdis

Video: The Story Of Chef Alfonso Verdis

Video: The Story Of Chef Alfonso Verdis
Video: Chef Alfonso Verdis | DACA Story 2024, May
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Neither the poverty of his native Copanatoyac, Guerrero, nor the brutal crossing of the border of Mexico and the United States with 15 years, nor the hard days of work in restaurant kitchens in New York, have posed for Alfonso Verdis a greater challenge than the one now facing.

The executive chef of the Sanfords restaurant, in the New York neighborhood of Astoria, is one of almost 800,000 DREAMers whose future has put President Donald Trump in jeopardy by ordering the end of the DACA program and putting in the hands of Congress the future of these young people.

The Deferred Action Consideration for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) mandate allowed Verdis, the father of three, to get a work permit and step out of the shadows to earn a chef's degree after lengthy years of working in the kitchen, in which he has served the rich and famous such as the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson.

The DACA program was approved by President Barack Obama in 2011 to prevent these young people from being deported, after Congress failed to agree to adopt the DREAM law that opened a path for citizenship.

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