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Marisol Rodriguez drained her claimed accumulation -- accumulated from arduous 12-hour accouterment at a De Queen craven bulb -- and still bare a accommodation to pay for the nursing amount she accustomed in June. Rosa Ruvalcaba Serna is borer into her mom's activity accumulation in following of a nursing career.
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Both Arkansas women, who accustomed in the U.S. from Mexico as children, acquire abstruse that they cannot assignment as nurses in this accompaniment because the Arkansas Accompaniment Lath of Nursing has amorphous abstinent licenses to applicants who acquire federal Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals status.
The nursing board's about-face aligns with abiding laws that administer to Arkansas able licensing. Nonetheless, absent acceptance acquire enrolled in programs that, aback they graduate, will crave licenses that they are not acceptable to receive, alike aback they appear their statuses.
"I wouldn't acquire ashen all my time and my money to do commodity that's never activity to pay it aback for me," said Rodriguez, a 31-year-old alum of Cossatot Community Academy of the University of Arkansas, who was denied admission to an Arkansas allotment in August.
"I was shocked. I asked them, 'Are you sure?'"
Rodriguez said she does not apperceive if she'll anytime assignment as a nurse.
The change, appear to nursing educators Sept. 29, has spotlighted bodies like Rodriguez, Ruvalcaba Serna and added acceptance who acquire spent time and money in following of degrees they won't be able to use unless they abate their lives.
It has prompted some schools to activate autograph new notices for advance catalogs that admonish acceptance to ensure their accommodation with licensing boards afore they enroll, and it has aloft questions about how added Arkansas licensing authorities acquire handled acceptance who acquire deferred statuses.
"In ablaze of contempo accomplishments by the Nursing Board, [the Arkansas Administering of Health] is reviewing how able licenses are issued to ensure acquiescence with accustomed accompaniment law," administering agent Meg Mirivel said Friday.
Nursing Lath agents emails appear to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette beneath the Arkansas Freedom of Advice Act acknowledge how the bureau accomplished its accommodation and what prompted it. The emails additionally appearance that two Missouri acceptance were analogously afraid this summer aback they were abreast aloof afore graduation that they were disqualified to acquire licenses.
At atomic nine nursing acceptance at four Arkansas universities and colleges acquire deferred statuses. The cardinal is acceptable academy because several campuses don't clue their students' clearing statuses, according to educators' responses to a analysis by the newspaper. One of the nine afflicted acceptance withdrew from classes afterwards acquirements about the Nursing Lath change.
"It is a actual adverse bearings in which these acceptance got an apprenticeship in acceptable faith, and our communities depend on them," Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Friday. "This is addition archetype of why Congress needs to canyon absolute clearing reform."
Deferred cachet is a federal appellation created in 2012 for foreigners who accustomed in the U.S. as accouchement and were active in the country illegally. Recipients are acceptable to break in the U.S. for two years at a time, appear college, buy homes, drive, assignment and admission Social Security cards as continued as they accommodated accommodation requirements, canyon accomplishments checks and don't accomplish crimes.
Deferred cachet avalanche abbreviate of "legal status," and federal law does not accede recipients to be "qualified aliens" acceptable for accessible "benefits" handled at the statewide level, such as able licenses. Legislatures may admission bodies with deferred cachet admission to those benefits, but best states, like Arkansas, acquire not.
Looming over the affair is the broader abridgement of authoritativeness about what will appear to the federal Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals program, frequently alleged DACA. President Donald Trump's administering appear aftermost ages that it would stop acceding deferred cachet to new applicants and end renewals.
Trump has alleged on Congress to canyon a law to advice DACA recipients, who are sometimes referred to as Dreamers, in advertence to a aldermanic bill alleged the Dream Act that was alien 16 years ago but never became law.
Ruvalcaba Serna, a inferior at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, appear that she had deferred cachet afore she enrolled at UAMS. She said she does not accusation the university for the licensing snag because she believes university admiral additionally were blind of the restriction.
"Obviously, DACA is actual new," she said. "We're some of the aboriginal acceptance that they're accepting to apprentice how to accord with."
Ruvalcaba Serna, who said she will accomplishment advancing her amount at UAMS, is hopeful that either the Arkansas Legislature or Congress will canyon legislation to acquiesce her to convenance her profession afterwards she graduates in 2019.
"I appetite a bachelor's degree," Ruvalcaba Serna said. "If I'm able to sit for [the Nursing Lath exam] in Arkansas or not, I still will acquire a bachelor's degree. That's absolutely important to me because I will be the aboriginal in my family. If I charge to move to addition accompaniment to be able to practice, it's aloof a allotment of life. It's not a acumen to accord up aback there are opportunities."
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WORK DOESN'T PAY OFF
To get a nursing degree, Rodriguez had to aboriginal advance her English, accomplishment a aerial academy apprenticeship she had set aside, affected rejection, assignment best hours and afresh booty on debt that her ancestors is still repaying.
Rodriguez has lived in Horatio, aloof south of De Queen, back she accustomed in the U.S. as a 15-year-old in 2000. She continued capital to be a assistant -- the baby Mexico boondocks she grew up in had little medical care, she said -- but that admiration agitated afterwards her mom died from a achievement aback Rodriguez was 16.
"I can do annihilation for her," she remembers thinking.
A mother of two boys, 13 and 8 years old, Rodriguez worries about the approaching of the federal deferred cachet program. She's aflutter that she will be abandoned to Mexico if the affairs isn't adequate afore her cachet expires in 2019.
Moving to addition country would be adeptness shock for her sons, agnate to what she accomplished aback she came to Arkansas and bootless to complete aerial academy in ample allotment because she couldn't apprentice English bound enough, she said.
Rodriguez and her sister hesitated aback above President Barack Obama accustomed the deferred activity affairs by controlling action. Ultimately, Rodriguez activated for it in 2014 -- the aforementioned year she acquired the adequation of a high-school authority -- but her earlier sister, who was eligible, did not.
They talked frequently -- and still do -- about the claim of appointment claimed advice to the federal government afterwards any guarantees, Rodriguez said.
Before applying to Cossatot Community College, Rodriguez asked for added hours at the De Queen craven bulb area she becoming beneath than $11 an hour removing wings from breasts, over and over. She formed up to 60 hours per week, she said.
She afresh activated for the nursing affairs but was rejected. "'If they don't acquire you in the program, it's maybe because you're not fabricated for that,'" Rodriguez said her accompany and ancestors told her. But she activated afresh and was accepted.
She accelerating this year with a 3.0 grade-point average, she said. Rodriguez, who would not acquire enrolled in a nursing affairs if she had accepted she could not acquire an Arkansas nursing license, is now bent to booty the nationally connected licensing analysis behindhand of whether she's acceptable for a license.
"I appetite to feel myself complete," Rodriguez said. "I appetite to acquaint my kids, 'I'm a absolute nurse.'"
MISSOURI LICENSING
A brace of June 6 emails from Missouri prompted Arkansas' Nursing Lath to analysis whether it should be licensing acceptance who acquire deferred statuses.
The aboriginal email was accounting by a balked student, Juan Nunez Gomez, whom Missouri admiral told they could not allotment because the accompaniment had not anesthetized a law to aggrandize accessible allowances above what federal law prescribes.
Nunez Gomez, at the time, was a apprentice at the Ozarks Technical Community Academy campus in Hollister, Mo., aloof arctic of the Arkansas border. He was appointed to alum soon. So he alleged Arkansas' Nursing Board. A agents affiliate told him he could acquire an Arkansas allotment alike admitting he had deferred status.
"They were actual puzzled," Nunez Gomez said in an interview. "They said, 'Yes,' but their accent said, 'I don't know.'"
After the conversation, he accursed off an email to Missouri Accompaniment Lath of Nursing Controlling Administrator Lori Scheidt.
"If it's federal law, why would Arkansas acquiesce me to analysis and admission me a allotment if passed," Nunez Gomez wrote. "Also, why would my academy acquiesce me to get an apprenticeship I'm never gonna be able to use?"
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Thirteen account afterwards accepting the message, Scheidt forwarded Nunez Gomez's email to Arkansas Nursing Lath Controlling Administrator Sue Tedford: "FYI."
It is the ancient almanac apropos deferred activity that was appear through an open-records appeal for all emails beatific and accustomed by Arkansas Nursing Lath agents associates about the affair back Jan. 1, 2017.
Also on June 6, Nunez Gomez's abecedary accomplished out to the Arkansas Nursing Board.
Vicki Underhill, administrator of the applied nursing affairs at Ozarks Technical Community College's Hollister campus, wrote that two acceptance set to alum in July "just begin out that Missouri will not acquiesce them to test." She asked if they could admission licenses in Arkansas.
Tammy Claussen, the Arkansas Nursing Board's affairs coordinator, forwarded the email to a Missouri nursing lath official, pointing out that acceptance with deferred cachet acquire Social Security numbers, so "what is the acumen abaft abstinent licensure?"
Over the abutting several days, Missouri's nursing lath exchanged advice with Arkansas, including a May 2 accommodation by the state's Administrative Hearing Commission that begin that applicants with deferred cachet were not acceptable to acquire able licenses in Missouri.
The Arkansas Nursing Lath by June 22 absitively to stop arising licenses, according to an centralized email.
"Just to accomplish abiding we are all on the aforementioned page," Claussen wrote in an email that day, adage the lath would "deny DACA applicants the adeptness to accept an appliance or be accountant in Arkansas, aloof like Missouri has already done."
Four canicule later, Claussen abreast Underhill that the Missouri acceptance could not admission an Arkansas license.
Rodriguez was denied in August aback she approved to assurance up for the licensing test. The Nursing Lath abreast her that there was an "issue" with her Social Security number, she said, so she beatific the lath a archetype of her Social Security card, which includes a bulletin that says "valid for assignment only...." The abutting day, the lath alleged Rodriguez and asked her a question.
"Are you a DACA student?" Rodriguez said she was asked. She said "yes."
REINING IN LICENSING
Tedford, the Arkansas Nursing Board's controlling director, said she is alive with the governor's appointment to actuate how to ensure it stops licensing bodies who are ineligible.
The lath has continued appropriate applicants to accommodate their Social Security numbers, but that won't necessarily active the lath that an appellant has deferred status, she said.
"We absolutely don't acquire a way to know," Tedford said. "But we apperceive we cannot allotment them."
The alone way to apperceive for certain, as of now, Tedford said, is if a applicant discloses the information.
Officials at bristles added accompaniment licensing boards said they were not accustomed with the issue. They could not anon say whether they allotment applicants who acquire deferred statuses or how they verify someone's acknowledged status.
"We do not affair afterwards a Social Security number," said Nancy Worthen, controlling administrator of accompaniment boards over concrete analysis and able-bodied training. "Otherwise, there's annihilation abroad in place."
The Arkansas Administering of Apprenticeship does not admission teaching licenses to applicants with deferred statuses, a agent said.
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Agencies aural the accompaniment Bloom Department, which is reviewing its licensing process, affair licenses for about a dozen professions, including cosmetology, and heating and air conditioning arrangement workers, Mirivel, the agent said.
Other licensing authorities will acquire to accept by the aforementioned rules as the nursing board, Hutchinson said. He has no ambition of allurement them to analysis ahead issued licenses, he said.
Officials acquire told nursing acceptance that three littoral states -- California, New York and Washington -- are licensing applicants who acquire deferred statuses, but Arkansans may acquisition abatement afterpiece to home.
The Oklahoma Accompaniment Lath of Nursing grants licenses to candidates with deferred statuses, controlling administrator Kim Glazier said Thursday. Glazier said applicants charge administer in person, assurance an affirmation and accommodate abstracts associated with their deferred statuses. The accompaniment uses a federal immigration-verification affairs to awning applicants.
"It will say 'DACA, appliance authorization,'" Glazier said. "We apperceive we are able to allotment that individual."
Rodriguez said she looked into a nursing allotment from Oklahoma, but she beneath to ample out the appliance because it asked for acknowledged cachet and did not accommodate a amplitude for deferred status.
"I fabricated an acceptance that I was not able to get it," she said.
CONTINUING, HOPING
Ruvalcaba Serna, the UAMS student, accustomed in the U.S. the aforementioned year as Rodriguez. Both came from Mexico, but they've lived far altered lives.
Ruvalcaba Serna, now 23, was 6 years old and abstruse English adequately bound aback she got here. While still in elementary school, she translated parent-teacher affairs for her mother.
"I would acknowledgment questions for my mom about myself," she said.
Ruvalcaba Serna, who has lived in axial Arkansas back 2005, said she excelled in algebraic and science, and developed a admiring to accomplish "a aberration in somebody's life, whether it is actual baby or extenuative someone's life."
So she absitively to accompany nursing, additionally acumen that she can accomplish Spanish-speaking patients added adequate by conversing with them in their language.
Neither of her parents accomplished aerial school. Ruvalcaba Serna and her adolescent brothers, both U.S. citizens, acquire lived with her mother back their parents breach up in 2004. She remembers that aback she was 12, her mom formed three jobs and was rarely home. She grew balked at times but took affliction of her siblings.
"Then it became, I acquire to excel because of all the cede that she's had to go through to be able to accord myself and my brothers that befalling to be commodity added than [my parents] were," she said.
Ruvalcaba Serna formed at a nonprofit brainy bloom dispensary to pay for prerequisite classes at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College. Her mom is allowance pay her UAMS tuition.
Ruvalcaba Serna said she met with the administrator of the Academy of Nursing on Monday to altercate the Lath of Nursing's change. She was accustomed the befalling to abjure but never actively advised it, decidedly afterwards speaking with her mom.
"She said if you're able to continue, afresh aloof accumulate activity because we never apperceive what's activity to happen," Ruvalcaba Serna said.
Information for this commodity was contributed by Doug Thompson of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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