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.

Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, 57, is the first person in ICE custody to die of the COVID-19 virus. His bond request was denied on April 15.

"... a man was placed in isolation for five days without any test. He didn’t get food or a shower or toothpaste. It was cold, and they didn’t give him adequate clothes. No one checked on him. He was neglected and ignored."

Hunger striker: "We could die here. We cannot do social distancing and people are coming in and out every day."

"[ICE] used power and fabricated documents and used fake travel documents to deport me to the same country I fled as a refugee."