FFI's report clearly demonstrates that actions deliberately taken by ICE are helping to spread the virus both inside and outside detention facilities.

A Vietnamese woman writes to us about the misconceptions many Americans have about immigrants, and indignities endured at the Northwest Processing Center.

Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, 57, is the first person in ICE custody to die of the COVID-19 virus. His bond request was denied on April 15.

As the number of COVID-19 cases at Otay Mesa rises, so do alarming reports of hunger strikes and the use of pepper spray.

by Cindy KnoebelThe chorus of calls for help from immigrants trapped inside detention centers keep growing ... and growing. Reports from the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield, CA are particularly troubling. On March 25, eighty-five men wrote a petition to ICE; on March 30, the Interfaith Movement for Human

"We are literally prisoners and there's nothing we can do. Just wash our hands and try to keep things clean."

As the pandemic continues to spread inside detention centers, ICE says less than 2 percent of its detained population has been classified for potential release.

247 individuals detained at Broward Transitional Center have signed a letter voicing their concerns about unsanitary conditions and the possibility of Coronavirus spread.

Despite having sponsors ready to house them, five South Asian hunger strikers remain detained and subjected to force-feeding and forced hydration.