COVID-19 has had catastrophic effects for society, with disproportionate impacts on immigrant and minority communities in terms of illness, access to health care, and limited eligibility for safety-net benefits. Some of the hardest-hit communities are Latino and immigrant ones, which have reported a higher number of cases and deaths. The effects have also been particularly acute for Black communities, which have long confronted pervasive racism. Using the coronavirus pandemic to achieve long-held aims, the Trump administration has advanced more than five dozen immigration-related actions, including a public-health order that permits the expulsion of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border and bans on certain permanent and temporary worker categories. The administration and Congress also approved legislative packages that exclude millions of immigrants and their U.S.-citizen family members from pandemic relief payments. This panel will discuss the effects of these measures on immigrants, many of whom have been on the frontlines of the pandemic response. Among the issues: how a changed public-charge definition has chilled many from accessing much-needed health services; continuing detention and deportation practices amid the public health crisis; and the status of the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness program, the first immigration legalization program passed into law in a decade.
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