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As Colleges Resort to Online Learning, ICE Issues 'Needlessly Cruel' Rule Pushing International Students Out of US

Cuban Asylum Seeker Describes Vicious Pepper Spray Attack on Hunger Strikers at ICE Detention Facility

Julia Conley, staff writer

More than 2,000 migrants and refugees in U.S. detention facilities have contracted Covid-19 as advocates demand their release.

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Because Covid-19 Leaves 'No More Time for Half Measures,' Judge Orders Release of Children Held by ICE

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Advocates are calling on the agency to also immediately release parents.

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Despite Haitians Who Tested Positive for Covid-19 Given Last-Minute Reprieve, Dems Demand Total Moratorium on Deportations During Pandemic

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

ICE agents backed down from an attempt to deport three Haitians ill with the coronavirus on Monday.

"Deporting people to Haiti in the midst of a global pandemic is both inhumane...

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Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego

'Many More Will Die': First Known Death From Covid-19 of Immigrant in ICE Custody Bolsters Release Calls

WATCH: Bernie Sanders to Host Livestream Discussion on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Undocumented Immigrants

A sign that reads "shut it down" is pictured at the Northwest Detention Center as during a protest at the Tacoma, Washington facility on Feb. 26, 2017.

Citing Pandemic, UN Human Rights Expert Urges US to Release Migrants 'Held for Processing'

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'Important Step' as Federal Judge Orders ICE to Release Detained Immigrants at Heightened Risk for COVID-19

An image of Holocaust victim Anne Frank was projected onto the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston Sunday night.

Because 'Anne Frank Did Not Die in a Gas Chamber,' Jewish Activists Cite Disease in Nazi Death Camps in Call to Free Detained Immigrants

U.S. Customs officers stand beside a sign saying that the U.S. border is closed at the U.S./Canada border in Lansdowne, Ontario, on March 22, 2020.

Because of the Threat of Coronavirus Turning ICE Detention Into 'Death Camps,' Groups Rallying to Free Families Held Around Country

Applauding Release of Prisoners in Ohio Due to Coronavirus Threat, ACLU Calls on Officials Nationwide to Do the Same

ICE agents stage a raid to arrest an undocumented immigrant in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 11, 2018 in New York City.

'These are the Bad Times': Trump to Deploy Heavily Armed Border Patrol Tactical Units to Help With Immigration Arrests in Sanctuary Cities

Shoes are left by people at the Tornillo Port of Entry near El Paso, Texas, June 21, 2018 during a protest rally by several American mayors against the US administration's family separation policy.

'Let Her In': Outrage Swirls After Six-Year-Old Girl With Downs Syndrome and Heart Condition Turned Away at US Border

Customs and Border Patrol agents at the Scripps-Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, California with a child carrier.

Outraged Response Forces US Border Patrol to Allow 19-Year-Old Mother to Stay With Sick Newborn

A young migrant girl sits on the floor as her father, recently released from federal detention with other Central American asylum seekers, gets a bus ticket at a bus depot on June 11, 2019, in McAllen, Texas.

'Sick to my Stomach': Explosive Report Details ICE Negligence in Medical Care for Detained Children Resulted in Deaths, Preventable Surgeries

During 2018, 396,448 people were booked into ICE custody: A daily average of 42,188 immigrants. 256,000 were deported the same year. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Guess What Happened After ICE, Which Has Torn Thousands of Families Apart, Tried to Honor Human Rights Day on Twitter

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Mijente

Mijente Response to SCOTUS Ruling Upholding DACA Program

Amnesty International - USA

Immigrant Rights Groups Call on Governors, Health Officials to Release People in Immigration Detention

Amnesty International - USA

First COVID-19 Death in Immigration Detention a Result of Continued Dehumanization of People by ICE

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Medically Vulnerable Immigrants Seek Emergency Release from ICE Detention in Alabama

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

New CEPR Analysis Shows 232 Likely Ice Air Deportation Flights to Latin America and the Caribbean During Pandemic So Far

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Medically Vulnerable Immigrants in “Notorious” Mississippi ICE Facility File Emergency Petition for Release

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Daniel Jenks, Ernesto Castañeda

Defunding the Police Is an Immigrants' Rights Issue, Too

William Hartung

Police, Prisons, and the Pentagon

Josue De Luna Navarro

The Victory of DACA Is a Reminder that Nothing Will Put Us Down

Jade Begay

Prolonged Uprising Is the New Normal

Michael Flynn, Katie Welsford

COVID-19 Reveals the Inherent Vindictiveness of Migration Detention

Robert P. Alvarez

A Simple Solution for the Coronavirus Crisis in Prisons

Tatalu Helen Dada

A Mother in ICE Detention Pleads for Her Life

Zoe Weil

What COVID-19 Reveals About Incarceration and How We Can Transform the Prison System

Basav Sen

Cruel Immigration Policies Make the Pandemic Worse

Danica Jorden

"Essential" Immigrant Farmworkers Struggle to Feed Themselves During Coronavirus