U.S. IMMIGRATION AND Customs Enforcement’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a horrifying — and avoidable — calamity. By handing out masks late, forcing detained people into close quarters, refusing to release t ...
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Whistleblowers Say an ICE Detention Center Used Deceptive Tricks to Conceal COVID Outbreak
One was instructed to crank the AC to “freeze out” high-fever detainees who ICE wanted to deport. ...
Mexican Man With Coronavirus Dies in ICE Custody
An El Salvador man died in May after testing positive for coronavirus at a San Diego, California, ICE facility. A Guatemala man died later that month at a Lumpkin, Georgia, facility. ...
‘They Put Us in Here to Let Us Die’: ICE Prison Sees Outbreak of Coronavirus—and Guard Violence
Over two-thirds of migrants locked up at a private ICE facility tested positive for COVID-19. “You don’t treat humans like this. You don’t treat dogs like this,” one detainee said. ...
Trump Administration Rescinds Rule On Foreign Students
ICE announced the decision as a court hearing was getting underway on a challenge to the rule by Harvard and MIT. ...
Nearly 60 universities file brief backing challenge to ICE rule on foreign students
The university has said that it will allow “those who must be on campus to progress academically” to return in the fall. ...
‘It Was Like a Time Bomb’: How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus
An investigation by The New York Times and The Marshall Project reveals how Immigration and Customs Enforcement became a spreader of the coronavirus. ...
Palantir, data-mining company that helped ICE track down and deport immigrants, is going public
Founded with CIA money, Palantir is the paragon of surveillance capitalism — and is finally ready to cash in ...
Former Employees at Raided Slaughterhouse to Get Back Pay
Brantley, 62, is serving 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion, wire fraud and employing undocumented immigrants. ...
International Students in the U.S. Could Face ‘Devastating Upheaval’ in Wake of ICE Guidance for Foreign Students to Leave if Schools Are Online-Only
As it stands, Avila’s understanding is that she has to leave. And it’s not just her education that she’s worried about. “The people that I love — a lot of them are here,” she says. ...
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