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This asylum seeker fled to Texas to escape violence, only to test positive for coronavirus while fighting deportation

Two sisters fled Guatemala six years apart. The older sister received asylum and settled in California. The younger one was denied and is now fighting COVID-19 in an El Paso detention center.

Immigration detainees wait at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Texas.

Sisters leave home six years apart

Same path, different result

Uphill fight to remain in the U.S.

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