NC isn t checking immigration status as it offers COVID vaccine but residents have fears Aaron Sánchez-Guerra and Sophie Kasakove, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 23 As a housekeeper, Ana Huerta has spent the pandemic disinfecting and cleaning surfaces in homes and factories in the Triangle and is unable to work from home.
Huerta, a Mexican immigrant, wants to be vaccinated to avoid bringing the coronavirus home to her two small children, but she has worried that lacking legal immigration status could prevent her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine. It would make no sense to not vaccinate someone over legal status if the point is to get rid of the virus, Huerta, 38, said in Spanish to The News & Observer. I think that would be selfish, or even racist.