Coronavirus Is Shutting Everything Down, Except for ICE Arrests

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

Gaby Del Valle
GEN
Published in
5 min readMar 25, 2020

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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

AA 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…

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Gaby Del Valle
GEN
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Gaby Del Valle is a freelance writer who lives in Brooklyn. She is the co-founder of BORDER/LINES, a weekly newsletter about immigration policy. @gabydvj