COVID-19 is ravaging the nation’s jails and immigration detention facilities. Many detained people are at particular peril because they suffer from multiple aliments that elevate their risk of contracting a severe COVID-19 infection.

 

As of 9/13/22, at least 26,961 people in ICE detention tested positive with COVID-19, and ICE has not reporting cases of infections among its contractor's employees.

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The CDC has warned that people with these conditions should stay at home and away from other people as much as possible. It is impossible for people in immigration detention to follow these guidelines while in ICE custody where they continue to be grouped in pods of 80-100 people each, and into cells of 5-8 people each. ICE is aware of all of these conditions yet refuses to release it medically vulnerable population on medically necessary humanitarian parole. ImmDef is demanding their release!