Families face separation as US ends Obama-era immigration programs in CNMI

Norlita Ordonio thought Super Typhoon Yutu was her family's worst nightmare.

Then on Dec. 27, she learned she could soon be removed from Saipan and taken away from her American children, ages 10 and 14.

"It worries me a lot that I would be separated from my children. Who would feed them and care for them?" she said.

Saipan is the only home her children know, since they were born and raised on the island, and moving them elsewhere would take them out of their home and leave behind their friends, school and community. Children born in the CNMI are U.S. citizens.

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