Opinion | ICE's coronavirus response is 'business as usual.' That puts everyone at risk.

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Opinion | ICE's coronavirus response is 'business as usual.' That puts everyone at risk.
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Opinion | Julio Ricardo Varela: 'At a time when the world should be coming together to find humanitarian solutions to a pandemic that knows no borders...business as usual for ICE will inevitably lead to more infection and more deaths' - NBCNewsTHINK

Though the federal government has repeatedly assured Americans that it is doing all it can to stop the spread of the coronavirus, one controversial agency may well be enabling its spread rather than actively participating in slowing it down, while claiming the mantle of protecting “national security.” But there is nothing more essential to the security of the American people than overcoming this immediate public health disaster — especially not institutionalized racism.

And where, exactly, will those people go? Well, many will go into ICE's detention centers — and local prison facilities that hold detainees for ICE — all of which have been identified as

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