Democrats are fighting to restart a pipeline of $20 billion in government healthcare aid per year to help migrants who face rising economic pressure to self-deport homeward.
President Donald Trump’s economic pressure on the migrants has reportedly forced roughly 1.6 million to self-deport. The number is likely to grow as administration officials pressure more businesses to shed illegal workers, impose more fines against migrants’ hard-earned possessions, and change migrants’ calculations.
“There’s no work … We have just made the decision to leave on our own terms,” a self-deporting illegal migrant named Gerardo told CBS News on September 28:
Gerardo says that when he first arrived, he was making up to $1,400 a week working as a truck driver. Today, he makes less than
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