For immigrants, IDs prove to be a barrier to a dose of protection
Akilah Johnson
Ronilda Oliveira, 53, receives her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at Boston's Brazilian Worker Center, where hundreds of immigrants have come for a shot of protection. (Sophie Park for The Washington Post)
BOSTON — The line started outside, on a street usually teeming with people waiting to enter college bars, and snaked up the stairs of an old firehouse to the Brazilian Worker Center, where shots of the coronavirus vaccine were being administered on this cold New England spring morning.
Finally, it was Maria Sousa’s turn. She had been waiting for more than an hour with her husband and daughter when a center volunteer greeted them in Portuguese and guided them to the registration desk, where they presented their identification — Brazilian passports.