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President Trump says he will pause some legal immigration for 60 days to "protect American workers" amid the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, the Senate has approved another relief package. CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang joins CBSN to talk about the latest.
More than 20,000 migrants, including unaccompanied children, have been expelled from the southern border under the emergency directive.
On May 6, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported the first death of a person in custody due to the coronavirus. At least 788 migrants in detention facilities across the country have tested positive for the virus. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins CBSN with the details.
At least 788 immigrants in ICE custody have tested positive for coronavirus across the country.
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that officials at the southern border have summarily expelled more than 20,000 unauthorized migrant adults, families and children from the U.S. under a broad public health order issued in late March in response to the coronavirus pandemic. CBS News immigration report Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano with the latest.
More than 90% of the families, children and single adults that Border Patrol encountered in April were expelled under a public health order.
It is the ninth time since a national emergency was declared that staff at detention centers used pepper spray on protesting ICE detainees.
At least 99 of Guatemala's 500 COVID-19 cases are among deportees. Experts fear U.S. continuing its policy could overwhelm Guatemala's small public health system.
The judge ordered officials to promptly release children with sponsors from immigrant detention facilities, where the coronavirus has spread in recent weeks.
"I'm exposing my life every day and exposing myself. I'm exposing my family, people around me, and it's like they don't see that. They don't value that."
Some 52,000 would-be immigrants could lose the opportunity to move to the U.S. over the next two months under the order, according to one estimate.
"There's fear among all of us," Marco, a Cuban asylum-seeker detained in Louisiana, told CBS News.
The president said the move is necessary to protect American workers reeling from an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign called the move "common sense" amid recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
The details of the executive action and how it would be carried out were not immediately clear.
U.S. Judge Jesus Bernal required ICE to consider releasing immigrants over 55, pregnant women and detainees with chronic health conditions
There are growing concerns about the U.S. sending infected deportees to the Central American country, which only has 214 confirmed cases.
At least half of the nation's agricultural workers are undocumented — and they will not be getting coronavirus relief checks.
A shelter in Chicago reported at least 37 cases of coronavirus among children in government custody, and it expects that number to rise.
The filing cited declarations by doctors who said immigrants are foregoing medical care for coronavirus, fearing immigration consequences.
"We are also at risk of dying. We are also people, human beings," one Cuban asylum-seeker held by ICE in Louisiana told CBS News.
After living in the U.S. for nearly a decade, Lizandro and his brother were sent to El Salvador in 2017. He's now playing professional soccer thousands of miles away from his family.
The U.S. is also rapidly expelling unaccompanied migrant children. Top border official Mark Morgan said they could also pose an "absolute public health risk" to the U.S.
Hours before the announcement, a federal judge ordered the release of 22 sick immigrants in Pennsylvania, warning of "catastrophic outcomes."