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Op-Ed: COVID-19 is rampant in ICE detention facilities. Where s the vaccine? Bill Ong Hing and Hamid Yazdan Panah © Provided by The LA Times In March 2020, about 50 cars participated in a protest against holding immigrants at Immigration and Customs Enforcement s Otay Mesa Detention Center during the pandemic. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent vaccine rollout have exposed deep issues of equity, access and justice in California. Perhaps no population has been more marginalized in the rollout than those who are held against their will in immigration detention facilities. Nearly a year into the pandemic, there is still no known plan in place and no agency or group clearly responsible for making sure that immigrants in detention in the state will get vaccinated.
By Marielena Castellanos
Iris Abigail Chacon Flores, who left El Salvador to escape violence, said she will never forget what she felt when she turned herself in to immigration authorities. Chacon Flores said her feet were shackled, her hands shackled. She said what surprised her the most were the shackles placed around her stomach. She was five months pregnant.
“I felt it wasn’t me they were chaining up, but my baby who was the one getting chained up, before it was even born into the world. I felt morally damaged, psychologically, when I was chained up in that manner,” Flores Chacon said.
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