The visit to Carrizo Springs, Texas, was led by Rep. Joaquín Castro and included House Democrat Reps. Pete Aguilar, Ilhan Omar, Barbara Lee, Jimmy Panetta, Jennifer Wexton, and Rashida Tlaib. On March 26, Texas Rep. Joaquín Castro visited the Carrizo Springs...
“DHS is not above the law. COVID-19 is killing people in ICE custody,” said Nicole Elizabeth Ramos, an attorney with Al Otro Lado. On May 6, a 57-year-old Salvadoran man became the first undocumented immigrant to die of COVID-19 while at an immigration...
Meet the Latino representatives urging ICE to release immigrants from detention centers to prevent further spread of COVID-19. Texas Democrat Reps. Joaquin Castro, Henry Cuellar, and Sylvia Garcia visited the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall and the South...
The agency has been moving detainees who are asymptomatic but may be carrying COVID-19, immigration officials admitted during a federal court hearing. U.S. immigration officials are not testing every detainee who gets transferred from one detention center to another...
Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia and his sisters came to the U.S. with their mother in 1980 during El Salvador’s civil war, and he was the only one unable to obtain a green card. A 57-year-old man at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in California became the first detainee...