The Trump administration has yielded to pressure against their new plan to deport migrants receiving life-saving medical care—at least to an extent
The Trump administration has seemingly yielded to pressure against their new plan to deport migrants seeking life-saving medical care—at least to an extent. Responding to widespread outrage over reports that U.S.
According to USCIS, the agency receives approximately 1,000 medical-related deferred action requests per year, and those helped by the program include children and families with cancer, sickle-cell anemia, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and other illnesses. “I'll probably die because in my country, there's no treatment for [cystic fibrosis],”when asked what would happen if he's sent back to his home country of Honduras. “Doctors don't even know what's the disease.
The program was shut down without any advance warning or formal announcement in August, as applicants receivedtelling them USCIS offices “no longer consider deferred action requests” and ordering them to leave the country within 33 days. The federal agency said that the requests would now be handled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—who promptly expressed their own confusion over the sudden change.
USCIS's Monday statement is unclear about what will happen to the program's future beyond the current pending applications, and the agency still has not yet announced if the program will continue or if it would grant extensions to immigrants currently protected through the program. USCIS “is taking immediate corrective action to reopen previously pending cases for consideration,” an official. “Whether a very limited version of deferred action will continue forward at U.S.C.I.S.
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