Feinstein introduces bill to help deported Oakland nurse and family

Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill that would provide green cards to an Oakland nurse and her husband whose deportation to Mexico last month split up their family. Maria Mendoza-Sanchez and Eusebio Sanchez, who worked as a truck driver, were deported Aug. 16 to their native Mexico after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials rejected arguments by them and Feinstein that they deserved a reprieve after spending more than two decades in the country. The couple raised four children who each have legal status, owned their home in Oakland, did not have criminal records, and had been granted earlier delays of deportation.