Mexican immigrants walk across the Paso del Norte border bridge after being deported from the United States amid the spread of the coronavirus disease , in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Apr 21, 2020. WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump made a hardline immigration agenda central to his 2020 re-election campaign and his administration has pushed ahead with a wide-ranging crackdown even as the United States has become the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak worldwide.
ICE also said this month it had instructed offices around the country to consider releasing detainees at higher risk of contracting COVID-19, such as pregnant women and seniors. Advocates have questioned whether the new coronavirus has spread more widely within ICE facilities. The agency has only conducted roughly 425 tests on all detainees, a spokeswoman said this week.
Many ICE detention centres are in remote communities, far from hospitals able to handle a rush of patients with COVID-19, Reuters reported earlier this month. In March, a Los Angeles-based federal judge called on US officials to"make continuous efforts" to get children out of detention facilities.
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