DACA health care workers fear they could face deportation
"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."
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"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."
Immigrant women detained in rural Louisiana feel powerless to shield themselves from the rapidly-spreading coronavirus. They're asking the U.S. not to forget about them.
A federal judge said not releasing sick immigrants could lead to "unconscionable and possibly barbaric result."
"Despite everything I experienced along the way, they deported me the next day," one indigenous teenager from Guatemala told CBS News.
The federal judge in California called immigration detentions centers "hotbeds of contagion" in her order.
The three minors are the first confirmed coronavirus cases among the 3,600 unaccompanied children currently in U.S. custody.
Attorneys wrote that thousands of unaccompanied migrant children "spend all of their time in close proximity to other children and staff members."
An attorney said it was a good public health move, but noted that migrants are disheartened that they won't be able to make their case to win U.S. asylum anytime soon.
A dozen migrant children in U.S. custody have been tested for the virus. Five results came back negative and the rest are pending.
A program in Hungary is offering cash to couples for having kids, but the reasoning for it echoes some of Europe's darkest chapters. Jon Wertheim reports on the anti-immigrant motivation to "keep Hungary Hungarian."
The Trump administration is citing a public health law that allows officials to deny entry to foreigners who could carry a disease.