BREAKING: Federal judge orders U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release children held in the country’s 3 family detention centers by July 17 because of the danger posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The centers “are ‘on fire’ and there is no more time for half measures,” Gee wrote.
She cited"unevenly implemented written protocols," employees with COVID-19 at one Texas facility, and 11 detainees with the virus at a family residential center in Kansas. "The court is not surprised that COVID-19 has arrived" at ICE and U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities, Gee wrote."ICE shall urgently enforce its existing COVID-19 protocols," she said, including social distancing, requiring mask use and testing.
The ruling is part of ongoing litigation over the Flores agreement that covers how U.S. immigration officials treat migrant children.
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