A Fourth Guard at an ICE Detention Center Has Died of COVID-19
Immigration detainees sit in a yard at the Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit prison in Louisiana run by LaSalle Corrections, in September.Gerald Herbert/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A fourth guard at a US immigration detention facility has died as a result of COVID-19, as the virus…
Trump Used the Pandemic to End Asylum at the Border. A New Lawsuit Challenges That Decision.
Two children cross the Rio Grande into the United States to turn themselves over to authorities and ask for asylum. June 2019.AP Photo/Christian Torres For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump administration is facing the first legal challenge of its policy of turning away thousands of asylum…
ICE Asked Parents to Choose Between Family Separation and Prolonged Detention—During a Pandemic
A young mother speaks on the phone from a family detention center in Texas in 2016.Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at family detention centers presented parents with a horrifying question, according…
Today Marks the First COVID-19 Death of an ICE Detainee
Detainees in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Tacoma, Washington. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For weeks, the cases of COVID-19 among Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees have been rising. Now, ICE has had its first COVID-19-related death in…
Two Guards at an ICE Detention Center With a Major Coronavirus Outbreak Have Died
Inmates on cots at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana while Mother Jones’ Shane Bauer worked there as a guard.Shane Bauer/Mother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Two guards at Louisiana’s Richwood Correctional Center, where at least 45 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody have tested positive…
ICE Detainees Terrified of the Coronavirus Wanted to Be Deported. Guards Pepper-Sprayed Them.
Inmates on cots at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana while Mother Jones’ Shane Bauer worked there as a guard.Shane Bauer/Mother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday morning, the roughly 80 men detained in one unit of the Catahoula Correctional Center had a simple request: They…