ICE has no clear plan to vaccinate thousands of detainees
Maria Sacchetti, The Washington Post
March 12, 2021
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In this photo, a staff member works in the infirmary, a series of tents, at the U.S. government s newest holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas. At least 370 detainees at ICE detention centers are currently positive with covid-19, according to agency records. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Eric Gay/Associated Press
The coronavirus has been running rampant for months through Immigration and Customs Enforcement s network of jails holding civil immigration detainees fighting deportation - but the agency has no vaccination program and, unlike the Bureau of Prisons, is relying on state and local health departments to procure vaccine doses. Nobody can say how many detainees have been vaccinated.
An immigration detention facility in western New York that’s been beset by coronavirus must come up with a plan to vaccinate detainees from the disease, a.