Deportations continue amid pandemic

US deportation flights risk spreading coronavirus globally [The World immigration] When you support The World today your donation will be matched! Many of you have stepped forward and shown your support for The World with thoughtful messages like this one: "I’m glad there are matching funds for my donation. Thank you for bringing voices from all around the world to us." Our coverage never has been, and never will be, behind a paywall. Donate today to support our freely available journalism. [donate]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 'From a public health and medical perspective, it's shocking that these deportations are continuing.' While many countries, including the US, have limited international commercial aviation because of the COVID-19 pandemic, planes deporting people from the US are still taking off. “From a public health and medical perspective, it's shocking that these deportations are continuing,” said Michele Heisler, medical director at the US-based nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights and a professor of internal medicine and public health at the University of Michigan. The flights do not only put people in deportation proceedings at risk, but also threaten to spread the coronavirus to countries ill-equipped to deal with the disease. [US deportation flights risk spreading coronavirus globally]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Plus, here are a few more stories you might have missed: [Young Latino voters in Seattle view November election through lens of pandemic]( Blacks and Latinos are more likely than whites to be considered "essential workers" and to be diagnosed with COVID-19 — and to die of the disease. Those experiences are shaping how people from those groups will vote in the November presidential election. [DACA health workers risk their lives to fight COVID-19 while they await SCOTUS ruling]( Nearly 30,000 DACA recipients work as health care professionals. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the industry needs them more than ever. Their fate lies in a Supreme Court decision that could come any week now. [Farmworkers are now deemed essential. But are they protected?]( An estimated 2.5 million farmworkers across the United States are now deemed essential workers — exempt from shelter-in-place restrictions to keep the country’s food supply flowing. Yet at a time when social distancing and careful sanitizing are necessary safeguards against exposure to the coronavirus, little has been done to protect farmworkers. [Amid coronavirus, grassroots groups move online to capture Latino vote]( An estimated 32 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in November. Registering them to vote requires a substantial in-person effort that grassroots groups can't do right now because of the coronavirus outbreak. Some are shifting their strategies to the internet. Thanks for joining us! — Marnette Federis, education editor [The World FB]( [The World Twitter]( [Edit your subscription]( | [Unsubscribe]( The World from PRX and WGBH.