Immigration and Customs Enforcement has set up protocols that include separating detainees in the El Paso Processing Center and other detention facilities where there are cases of COVID-19. ICE outlined its procedures in a statement ...
Women held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso are expressing growing concern after several detainees tested positive for COVID-19. ICE has confirmed five positive cases but the number of people exposed to the virus ...
A woman detained at the El Paso Service Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on Montana Avenue, has tested positive for COVID-19, multiple immigration attorneys told El Paso Matters. It is the ...
An asylum seeker who went on a 110-day hunger strike to force his freedom describes his recent months in an El Paso immigration detention center as repeated torture. “When they force-fed me they tortured me ...
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By Margaret Brown Vega and Nathan Craig The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. This week communities across the United States, to better ensure public health, continued to pressure local, state, and federal officials ...