'I'm in so much pain, I barely have breath in my chest and my throat hurt,' one detainee told the Miami Herald. 'I'm sorry I'm crying but my bones and my body aches, I feel faint and my fever is burning. Please help me.'
A federal judge in South Florida ordered United States immigration officials to release the number of employees, and detainees, who have contracted COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, under their care.that third-party contractors are not considered"staff" members, and that the agency is not obligated to report how many employees have coronavirus.
"The purpose of the declarations is to provide the Court with information, and the information should be comprehensive and not limited by technicalities, such as whether a guard or officer is a government employee or an employee of a third-party contractor or contracting vendor," Goodman said in."For purposes of gauging the health risk to detainees, it matters little whether a COVID-19-infected guard or officer receives a paycheck from the United States or from Akima .
"ICE directly contradicts [CDC's] guidance in several ways, including, most critically, that ICE officials describe cohorting as the planned response to a known COVID-19 exposure, not a practice of last resort," Shin said in a sworn statement. Liana J. Castano, the acting director in charge of the Krome facility, last week said more than 230 detainees who had been detained in the same area were all exposed to someone who had been exposed to coronavirus.
Pain from a pandemic is not automatic dismal from the penal system, especially Florida detainees, who say the elderly, or critically dying, within the system get tested first.
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