In response to lawsuits and public pressure, ICE has released hundreds of immigrants from detention facilities. Others have been released after paying bond.
ICE says it has voluntarily freed more than 900 others, including Peralta and her dorm-mates, due to the pandemic. Some of the women had previously been deemed by the agency as being too dangerous to release, lawyers said.
“Many of the individuals ordered released by federal courts have extensive criminal histories and pose a potential public safety threat,” the website reads.Listing off some charges of released detainees, ICE spokesman Alexx Pons said they “all align with ICE’s core mission to identify and remove those who pose a significant risk to public safety.”
In the end, just one woman in Peralta’s dorm was deported, after being transferred to a detention facility in Louisiana. Advocates pointed to the other releases as proof that ICE exaggerates the number of detainees it claims are dangerous while ignoring the risks associated with keeping masses of people detained during a pandemic.“They’ve always had the prosecutorial discretion to release folks immediately,” said Juan Prieto of the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria issued a searing ruling April 29, slamming ICE for failing to produce a list of detainees who are at high risk for serious outcomes if they were to contract the novel coronavirus.Chhabria ordered ICE to provide information on every detainee at both facilities to review them for potential release on bail.people for the judge to review. So far, he has rejected 56. ICE has opposed each application up for review.
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