A Staff Member At A Facility Housing Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Has Tested Positive For The Coronavirus
Two unaccompanied children have tested negative for COVID-19, while two others who have been tested are still awaiting results, an agency spokesperson said.
A Medical Worker At An ICE Detention Facility For Immigrants Has Tested Positive For The Coronavirus
The case appears to be the first of an ICE official contracting COVID-19 within a detention facility housing immigrants in the US.
An Immigrant Has Killed Himself In An ICE Family Detention Facility
The death is the ninth in ICE custody in the 2020 fiscal year and surpasses the number of deaths for the entire 2019 fiscal year when eight people died.
The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Prompted ICE To Delay Arresting Immigrants Who Aren't "Public Safety Risks"
The move comes after days of advocates and lawmakers calling for a drawback in ICE enforcement and detention.
A Local Sheriff Said No To More Immigrant Detainees Because Of Coronavirus Fears, So ICE Transferred Them All To New Facilities
“The sheriff wanted to protect the current jail population that we had, along with the employees we have here and the staff at the facility, from the spread of the virus,” a sheriff's spokesperson said.
US Agencies Made It Harder To Reunite Immigrant Families Because They Failed To Keep Accurate Records, Report Finds
The unpublished report by the Government Accountability Office said the failure of US agencies to accurately track and share data made it harder for immigrant families to be reunited.
Immigration Judges Across The US Are Staying Home After The Coronavirus Hit Courtrooms
Immigration judges in New York and San Francisco stayed home from work Tuesday, and their union announced a judge in Denver had COVID-19 symptoms and an Atlanta attorney tested positive.
US Immigration Offices Are Going To Temporarily Close Due To The Coronavirus Pandemic
The move will postpone naturalization ceremonies and citizenship and asylum interviews, among other functions.
The Coronavirus Is Hindering One Of The Trump Administration’s Ways To Deport Asylum-Seekers
Guatemala on Tuesday said it will not take flights of people from Honduras and El Salvador who sought asylum in the US.
Immigrant Detainees At High Risk Of Contracting COVID-19 Should Be Released Now, A Lawsuit States
The immigrants include a 48-year-old Jamaican woman with a progressive liver disease who has been told she has only 10 to 12 years to live.
An Unprecedented Group Of Immigration Prosecutors, Lawyers, And Judges Are Calling For Courts To Be Closed
“It is tremendously unfair for employees like me to have to grapple with who to listen to: my boss or my governor?” one immigration judge in San Francisco told BuzzFeed News.
The Director Of The US Refugee Agency For Immigrant Children Is Being Replaced After A Little More Than A Year
A Health and Human Services official said Jonathan Hayes had been pushed out of his role at the direction of the White House.
Americans Returning From Europe Will Be Forced To Land In 13 US Airports For Screening
The rules apply to those traveling from the Schengen Area, which includes Austria, France, Germany, Greece, and Italy, among other countries.
Trump Is Suspending Travel From Europe To The United States As The Coronavirus Continues To Spread
The president said he was suspending "all travel" from Europe, but officials later clarified the restriction applied only to foreign nationals from 26 countries.
The Supreme Court Is Allowing The Trump Administration To Force Immigrants To Wait In Mexico
The high court voted to allow the “Remain in Mexico” policy — which forces asylum-seekers to wait on the other side of the border while their US cases are reviewed — as a legal challenge continues.
Trump Officials Are Finalizing Plans For Sending Asylum-Seekers To El Salvador
US officials are confident El Salvador will take more than 2,000 immigrants who cross the southern border without authorization, a source said.
Another Immigrant Has Died In ICE Custody. She’s The Eighth Since October.
The Guatemalan woman died about a month after she needed gallbladder surgery. It’s the eighth death in ICE custody in 2020’s fiscal year, tying with the number of deaths for 2019’s fiscal year.
A Secret Memo Revealed How A Transgender Immigrant Bleeding From Her Rectum Waited 13 Days For Care While Jailed By ICE
An email from Homeland Security investigators to ICE leadership revealed poor health care conditions at a remote jail in New Mexico. ICE officials waited months to move people from the facility.
A Judge Ruled Trump’s USCIS Director Wasn’t Legally Appointed
A policy directive by Ken Cuccinelli that gave asylum seekers less time to prepare for initial screenings should also be voided, the judge said.
Federal Judges Have Stopped Their Own Ruling That Blocked The Trump Administration From Forcing Immigrants To Wait In Mexico
“An emergency stay at 10 p.m on a Friday is unnecessarily adding to confusion and chaos,” said one asylum officer.