Central American refugees stopped by Trump, then by pandemic

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Because of the coronavirus pandemic, only about 338 of the 2,700 Central Americans approved to come to the U.S. through a small refugee program have been able to travel.

A Salvadoran businesswoman, who is one of the applicants of a small refugee program that was shut down by President Donald Trump, shows documents of the many times she has reported robberies and extortions, in Santa Ana, El Salvador, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. She said she was terrified when she began receiving death threats in 2013. Men with tattoos would come to a car wash she used to own to demand"monthly compensation" for letting her operate.

And when they finally do arrive, they have a temporary status they must keep reapplying for, face long waits for work permits they might not get and fear being separated from family as Trump cracks down on legal and illegal immigration. The Trump administration shut down CAM in 2017 during a series of executive orders tightening immigration controls. U.S. officials say Trump's policies are designed to confront a surge of Central Americans seeking asylum and reduce claims that lack merit.

A 56-year-old woman who owns a boutique and a small car sales business in Santa Ana, in western El Salvador, has been trying to join her husband in the U.S. through CAM since 2016. The woman, who didn't provide her name because she says gangs have threatened her, got into the program when it expanded to include some relatives of people in the U.S. despite age.

Many applicants had to repeat medical exams that expired by the time the lawsuit was settled last year. Since March, 157 medical exams have expired because of limited staff and grounded flights during the pandemic, the government's report said.

 

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GREAT

This is great news. Less Rona. Right, ?

Don’t say it so loud, the idiot in the WH might start with the whole “caravan” BS, to distract from killing nearly 200,000 of our own people. Ironically, his rhetoric of bad hombre’s” coming to kill and rape. Leader much?

Ok Don’t you want everyone to stay home and panicked ?

Good. Their lives are spared. I wouldn't want to come into this country right now.

hi

W/O immigration America is toast.

And Latinos in Fla support trump?

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