Medical experts and immigrant advocates have warned that the highly contagious COVID-19 puts everyone in detention at risk.
But for the older detainees in ICE custody, the inherent problems within jails — a lack of necessary space to accommodate proper social distancing guidelines — put them in even more danger, they say.As of Aug. 10, more than 1,000 ICE detainees had tested positive for COVID-19. And more than 4,000 had contracted the disease while in custody.
The number of deaths in ICE custody so far is more than double that of the last fiscal year, despite a significant drop in the immigrant detainee population. Last fall, there were more than 55,000 people in ICE custody per day. As of Aug. 1, that number had dropped to about 21,500 per day.
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