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Auditor Slams California ICE Facility That Released Detainees With COVID-19

Loaded on June 1, 2021 by Edward Lyon published in Prison Legal News June, 2021, page 10
Filed under: COVID-19, Danger to the Community, Immigration Law/Offenses. Location: California.

by Ed Lyon

A dozen immigrant asylum seekers who had tested positive for COVID-19 were released from a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center into the surrounding community of Calexico, California, in March 2021—the same month ICE was given a deadline to address deficiencies at the facility revealed ...

 

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