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Asylum Seekers Say ICE Guard Threatened to Expose Them to COVID
Three asylum seekers from Cameroon say an Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to transfer them to a COVID ward.
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Three asylum seekers from Cameroon say an Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to expose them to COVID-19 if they failed to obey his orders and submit to deportation. They were told they would be transferred to Bravo-Alpha, the detention unit of the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana where COVID-19 positive detainees were held in quarantine, detainee Clovis Fozao told The Intercept. “They were forcing us out of the dorm, pushing and dragging us,” Fozao said, explaining when the guards pushed the detainees toward deportation. “They threatened to call the SWAT team.” The Intercept
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Biden signs immigration executive orders but advocates push for more action Bailey Aldridge, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Feb. 3 President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed multiple executive orders aimed at overhauling the country s immigration system but many advocates say more needs to be done.
Biden has signed dozens of executive actions since taking office on Jan. 20, including several focused on immigration. On his first day in office, he strengthened Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, reversed the Muslim ban, halted construction on the border wall and rescinded policies enacted under former President Donald Trump that the Biden administration said directed harsh and extreme immigration enforcement.
The Justice Department has rescinded a Trump-era memo that established a “zero tolerance” enforcement policy for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, which resulted in thousands of family separations
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday rescinded the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” border policy that led to separations of migrant families who entered