Immigration and LGBTQ+ activists say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has allowed detention centers to become “death traps” amid the rapid spread of COVID-19.
Alvaro M. Huerta of the National Immigration Law Center: “Today’s decision is a tremendous victory for communities everywhere fighting courageously to uphold human dignity.”
Allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to destroy documents, including those on deaths and sexual assault, could endanger “health and safety” of those in ICE custody, according to the social justice organization.