A federal judge has ordered the release of children held in ICE custody by July 17, citing the dangers of the pandemic. Judge Dolly Gee said the Trump administration failed to provide even the most basic health protections for children and their families.
Immigrants seeking asylum hold hands as they leave a cafeteria at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center. Independent inspectors told the judge that COVID-19 tests at the centers and the infection rates in the counties where the Texas facilities are located are cause for concern.Immigrants seeking asylum hold hands as they leave a cafeteria at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center.
"Although progress has been made, the Court is not surprised that COVID19 has arrived at both the [Family Residential Centers] and [Office of Refugee Resettlement] facilities, as health professionals have warned all along," Gee wrote. Meanwhile, an independent monitor and a physician who inspected ICE's family detention centers reported earlier this month that given the infection rates in the counties where the Texas facilities are located, there is"even more cause for concern."
Holly Cooper, co-director of the University of California, Davis Immigration Law Clinic and one of the lawyers representing Flores agreement class members, is elated by the latest ruling.
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