Judge urges release of immigrant minors from ICE detention centers.
immigrationDolly Gee, a specially assigned judge who oversees conditions for migrant children in U.S. custody, directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to match minors held longer than 20 days with suitable sponsors or release them with their parents.
“No parent or child wants to be separated from each other. Family integrity is a human right,” Andrea Meza, legal services at director at RAICES, which advocates for detained families, told ABC News. “Today, Judge Gee did a good thing by lighting a fire under ICE for them to release families together.”According to the court filing, 124 children were held at the detention facilities as of June 8. ICE maintains three family centers in Texas and Pennsylvania.
FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2019 file photo, immigrants seeking asylum hold hands as they leave a cafeteria at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. The isolation of at least three families at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention center in Dilley, has raised new fears of the coronavirus spreading through a facility that has long been accused of providing substandard medical care.
Increased focus on the Texas facilities comes as the state reports a large increase in coronavirus cases. Texas reported 5,000 new cases on Friday, one of the highest number of new cases recorded in the state in a single day.
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