Coronavirus Is Shutting Everything Down, Except for ICE Arrests

ICE detainment facilities could quickly become a hub for Covid-19

Odalys K. Fernandez, Laurie Woodward Garcia, and Yaquelin Lopez join with other protesters outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office on March 13, 2020, in Miramar, Florida. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A Mexican immigrant at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Jersey tested positive for the coronavirus this week — a tragedy advocates warned would happen if ICE continued to arrest and detain people in the midst of…