As Employee of Detention Center's Medical Unit Tests Positive for COVID-19, Human Rights First Calls on States, ICE to Ensure Rapid Reduction of Detained Population
March 21, 2020
March 21, 2020
WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Human Rights First issued the following statement by Deputy Legal Director Anwen Hughes in response to confirmation that an ICE employee at an immigration detention center in New Jersey who self-quarantined a week ago with symptoms has tested positive for coronavirus:
"We remain gravely concerned about the health of asylum-seekers and immigrants held in detention facilities particularly in the wake of a positive diagnosis of a member of a detention cente . . .
"We remain gravely concerned about the health of asylum-seekers and immigrants held in detention facilities particularly in the wake of a positive diagnosis of a member of a detention cente . . .