From LaSalle Correctional Center: "We are currently on quarantine."
"Thanks to ICE we are now exposed to the virus."
"Thanks to ICE we are now exposed to the virus."
ICE continues to escalate its use of deceptive ruses to arrest immigrants.
"The number of missing [asylum] cases just last month is more than the 63,734 asylum applications received by the Immigration Courts during all of FY 2015."
FFI's report clearly demonstrates that actions deliberately taken by ICE are helping to spread the virus both inside and outside detention facilities.
A man calls from the IAH Detention Facility in TX with reports of crowded conditions, no social distancing - and people suffering from fevers and coughs.
Had Santiago Baten-Oxlaj, who was granted voluntary departure 2 months ago, been quickly released, he might still be alive today.
Now is the time to act and be on the right side of history. We must free detained and incarcerated people in Georgia before it is too late.
Will the COVID-19 pandemic be the catalyst for overhauling the systemic torture of immigration detention? Melanie Pino-Elliott isn't so sure.
FFI's third report on the impact of COVID-19 in detention facilities contains deeply disturbing information about the rapid spread of the virus - and ICE's irresponsible and dangerous responses.