behind me behind this gate is the state of arizona and the united states. the people on this line right here have passports. documentation. they can go in and out at will. but the people here are migrants. who have traveled hundreds of miles. they re with their children. they re hoping to get an interview inside and they re hoping if they get that interview, that their children aren t taken away. in the border town of nogales, mexico, the other side of this gate is the united states. and right next to the gate sitting on the ground are migrant families. living and sleeping outside hoping to be allowed to proceed just a few more feet into america. amalia is from guatemala. her son, kevin, is 7, and the other 3. what do you want to say to the united states? the 29-year-old mother says i want to go protect my children and have a better life for them. amalia says she fears for her life in guatemala because of
and nebraska. all right, young lady. so i have patients who have traveled hundreds of miles to come see me. and there are many patients who i travel to go see. we also use airplanes to get physicians out into those rural communities when the distance is significant. reporter: but there s one place al nafal is hesitant to fly to. out of the u.s. to see relatives. president trump s executive order bars citizens of seven muslim maurgeity countries, including syria, from entering into the united states. with that order in legal limbo, he is afraid he may be forced to leave his patients behind if he travels abroad and can t get back into the u.s. that s because he s not a u.s. citizen. he is here on a special j-1 visa waiver. a specific but important program that allows about 1500 international physicians each year to temporarily work in underserved areas of the country.