Civil Rights Orgs to ICE: Protect Immigrant Detainees From COVID-19 or Release Them
Detainees sit and wait for their turn at the medical clinic at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, La.Gerald Herbert / AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Earlier today, the Southern Poverty Law Center asked a federal judge to issue an emergency preliminary injunction requiring Immigration and Customs…
ICE Is Ignoring Recommendations to Release Immigrant Detainees to Slow the Spread of Coronavirus
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee listens to a fellow detainee, a Pentacostal preacher, in a chapel at a for-profit jail in Louisiana in September.Gerald Herbert/AP On Wednesday, as experts warned that hospitals could soon be overwhelmed, a Cuban doctor was stuck inside a for-profit detention center. Like many people in immigration jails, she was…
The Supreme Court Is Closed, But Immigration Courts Are Still Packing in Dozens of People at a Time
Immigration court in New York CityErik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty An unprecedented joint coalition of immigration judges, immigration attorneys, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees asked Tuesday to “immediately and temporarily close all immigration courts nationwide” in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The courts, run by the Department of Justice, have remained open—even as local…
ICE Is Still Holding Immigrants Vulnerable to Coronavirus. ACLU Just Sued to Let Some Out.
Detainees at the Strafford County Detention Center wave back to marchers rallying near the center where ICE detainees are being held, in Dover, New Hampshire.JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images The American Civil Liberties Union and the Northwest Immigration Rights Project sued ICE Monday afternoon, calling on the agency to release some detainees at an immigration detention…
The Right and Wrong Lessons to Take From That Viral Photo of an ICE Arrest at a Hospital
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers debrief after operations to arrest undocumented immigrants in 2018 in Brooklyn, New York. John Moore/Getty Two seemingly contradictory facts are both true: First, in the midst of a pandemic, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained a Honduran immigrant at a Pennsylvania hospital on Thursday. Second, it remains safe for immigrants…
This Map Shows How Radically Trump Has Changed Immigration Detention
A guard escorts an immigrant detainee at the Adelanto Detention Facility in California.John Moore/Getty In 2016, Donald Trump ran for president on an immigration platform that promised to close the southern border, end the “catch and release” policy, and implement a “zero tolerance” approach to anyone crossing the border illegally. While the current immigration detention…