Special Report: Immigrant couple face double jeopardy in U.S. coronavirus epidemic

A person wheels out boxes from the Chicken Outlet Store, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues in Morton, Mississippi, U.S. May 9, 2020. REUTERS/Courtland Wells

MORTON, Mississippi (Reuters) - The Koch Foods chicken-processing plant dominates the small town of Morton, where even the sides of the roads are dotted with feathers.

For more than a decade, the lives of Pedro Vasquez and Zoila Orozco have revolved around the plant. It set the stage for some of their greatest joys: They fell in love there, had a little boy and eventually saved enough money to buy a small house in town, far from their native Guatemala.