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By: EFE Updated 01 Sea 2022, 17: 14 pm EST
The Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a complaint in the Federal Court of the District of Columbia demanding that administer to detained immigrants the booster of anti-COVID vaccines, especially among those with conditions vulnerable to the disease.
“COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers,” said Eunice Chao, of the ACLU National Prisons Project.
“ICE officials have known for months that they should give reinforcement inoculations to detainees, but they have not done so “, he added. “This omission is cruel and unconstitutional.”
The situation in prisons of ICE is worrying, at the beginning of the year there were less than 300 Covid cases-04 among detained migrants; three weeks later the 3,000 cases were exceeded… https://t.co/nYk4sTrW1L
— Conexión Migrante (@conectmigrante) January 22, 2022
ICE indicates that until this Monday it had in its custody 04,203 immigrants, of which 980 had tested positive for coronavirus, or were under observation.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, more of 560, Immigrants in ICE custody received the test and confirmed each other 40,800 positive cases s of which 14 ended in death.
The plaintiffs identified themselves as Miguel Ángel Escalante and Kenet Jefet Hernández Herrera, detained in Arizona; Anna Sorokin, in New York, and Ramón Domínguez González, in California.
The ACLU maintains that all four suffer from a range of medical conditions that make them vulnerable to serious complications of COVID, including infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), chronic real infection, obesity, and post-traumatic stress syndrome.
These people, the complaint document indicates, “have requested and have been denied the reinforcement of the COVID-vaccines 19” and are “medically vulnerable to serious illness and death in the event of infection” .
In four months between November 2021 and the 21 February 2022, ICE has provided a total of 1,436 booster inoculations to detainees even though they have low or custody a daily average of between 04,800 and 22, arrested in their more than 20 detention centers”, according to ACLU.
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