Posted on Dec 25, 2018
A Policy Knot Leaves Oklahomans From Marshall Islands Struggling To Get Health Care
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After WWII and until the 1980s, their homeland in the South Pacific was a U.S.-administered territory, and for a part of that time, Americans used some islands in the region as a bombing range for testing nuclear weapons. Partly because of that history, a treaty now allows Marshallese to live and work in the U.S, as "indefinite legal residents
A Policy Knot Leaves Oklahomans From Marshall Islands Struggling To Get Health Care
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This is one of those situations where these people need to be given the health care they need. It's not their fault the families, in the 40s were uprooted because of our nuclear tests. They should have been provided the basic essentials and an unencumbered path to citizenship. Time for this intolerable situation to be rectified
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