Other court staffers have been exposed to family members or friends with the virus and have still been forced to come to work, they said. developed flu-like symptoms and were sent to the hospital. ICE denies it is using disinfectants in a manner that would be dangerous to detainees. “Detainees are being tested for the virus in line with CDC guidance. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. Along with the complaint about HDQ Neutral being used at Adelanto, there are similar complaints about detainees suffering severe side effects due to disinfectant sprays deployed at the ICE facility inside the Glades County Detention Center in Florida. The Reuters review of immigration court records identified 195 transfers to or from detention centers where ICE had reported confirmed cases. In the past month, quarantines in immigration detention centers in Miami-Dade, Broward and Glades Counties have mounted after several detainees developed flu-like symptoms and were sent to the hospital. “Can you imagine a detention facility with no windows not being a controlled-air environment?”, Overall, Henson said, “the staff, administration and community is doing everything in their power to safeguard staff, inmates, detainees and the public as we all … address the concerns that our nation is facing today during these extremely trying times.”. AGS did not respond to numerous phone calls and emails seeking comment. 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Employees with the disease are another main source of transmission, public health specialists said. Not surprisingly, Glades County is home to a detention center operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Immigrant detainees say ICE is using coronavirus disinfectant sprays that cause bleeding, burns and pain. The ICE holding center is the worst-hit facility with 315 confirmed COVID-19 cases, Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia contracted the virus at Otay Mesa Detention Center  in California and died May 6. In late April, we received and made public reports from people in detention in Adelanto that they were cleaning the facility ‘just with water’ or shampoo and were not provided appropriate cleaning supplies to sanitize the facility,” the complaint said. Over the past few weeks, local and state governments across the United States have reduced their jail and prison populations in an effort to prevent a coronavirus outbreak behind bars. 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According to the Glades County Sheriff’s Office, which operates the Glades County detention center for ICE, as well as GEO Group, which operates the Broward Transitional Center … As of July 16, ICE had reported 3,567 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its detention centers. Some of these reports from detainees came through a messaging system they have access to while in custody. On Sunday, after nearly 23 years of housing immigration inmates for the federal government, the Monroe County detention center in Key West abruptly severed its contract with ICE. Immigration court data notes when the government notifies the court that it has moved a detainee in its custody to another location. Glades County 9-1-1 At this time Glades County E911 is not able to verify or assign addresses in Glades County due to our GIS Company being closed due to COVID-19. AI Justice calls on ICE to release immigrants in its custody before lives are needlessly lost.”, In a letter last month to governors nationwide, global human rights group Amnesty International said: “One of the most critical steps you can take to immediately reduce the spread of COVID-19 is to utilize your public health and licensing authority to instruct federal immigration detention facilities, county and local jails to substantially reduce their detainee occupancy capacity.”. Monroe detainees are regularly transferred to and from immigration court in Miami-Dade for their federal hearings. “Many of us are very allergic to the substance that they have been spraying. The 57-year-old native from El Salvador became the first undocumented immigrant in custody of ICE to die from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. But the case of Farmville shows that efforts to keep sick and healthy detainees separate don't always prevent the spread. ICE did not respond to a request for comment on Reuters´ analysis. The staffers, who work for Akima Global Services, the government contractor that operates the facility for ICE, were confirmed to have tested positive on Monday by the federal agency. He also denied the chemical was being pumped out of 20-gallon drums, which would weigh about 150 pounds when full. But detainees aren’t the only ones getting sick. The complaints about chemical spraying at Adelanto come on the heels of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California on behalf of six detainees at the facility.

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