Jesus Contreras Paramedic

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Jesús Contreras worked non-stop for six days rescuing victims of Hurricane Harvey, which flooded the city of Houston last August.

Unable to go home to his mother, who brought him to the United States at age 6, the paramedic camped at a fire station to dedicate heart and soul to those most affected by the cyclone, which claimed 84 lives in its wake. for Texas.

When Contreras was able to return to his home in the Spring neighborhood, north of Houston, he received another hard blow: President Donald Trump had announced on Twitter the end of DACA.

The mandate of Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) had allowed this 23-year-old Mexican to come out of the shadows in which the undocumented live, to study, get a driver's license and aspire to achieve the American dream.

"We have just been hit by the hurricane and now this new storm is hitting us, an even bigger one," he told NBC after Trump's announcement that he has left his life in limbo.

Contreras is one of the DREAMers who star on the cover of the November issue of People en Español.