Migrants detained in an ICE detention facility in Basile, rural Louisiana, U.S., display signs related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in this combination of screenshots taken during a video conferencing call. Handout via REUTERS
Posted on 04/03/2020 3:51:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BASILE, Louisiana - U.S. immigration officials say they have a plan if detention centers get hit with coronavirus outbreaks: They will transfer detainees with serious symptoms to hospitals with “expertise in high risk care.”
But many centers - each housing hundreds of people, often in close quarters - are located in remote communities, far from hospitals able to handle a rush of patients with COVID-19. Detention center outbreaks in such areas could quickly swamp local hospitals, threatening their ability to treat local residents along with detainees.
The shortage of available care is especially acute in Louisiana, according to interviews with local health workers, hospital administrators and current and former detention-center employees. The administration of President Donald Trump has quadrupled the number of detainees in the state - to nearly 7,000 - as part of a larger immigration crackdown. And Louisiana hospitals are already straining to handle one of the world’s fastest-growing coronavirus outbreaks.
Five detainees inside the South Louisiana center, which houses more than 670 men and women, said in interviews that the conditions inside the center don’t allow them to protect themselves by, for instance, frequently washing their hands or maintaining social distance. They said they each only recently received a miniature bar of soap and have not been provided cleaning products.
Daimy Garcia, 28, an asylum seeker from Cuba, said more detainees have been recently transferred into her unit, making social distancing harder. She said her unit now holds more than 70 women from Cameroon, China, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Central America.
“This is a ticking time bomb,” Garcia said.
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Migrants detained in an ICE detention facility in Basile, rural Louisiana, U.S., display signs related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in this combination of screenshots taken during a video conferencing call. Handout via REUTERS
Awwwwwwww.
They are not immigrants if they are here illegally.
That’s it!
TEOTWAWKI
Don’t come.
If they’re LEGAL immigrants, they wouldn’t likely be detainees.
Send them back.
Today.
L
Sorry, my give a damn is busted.
....” They said they each only recently received a miniature bar of soap and have not been provided cleaning products”....
LOL....well I don’t think they were too worried about how clean or not they were on the road into our country. As usual the entitlement mindset rages on.
Hmmm. Sounds like the old “women and minorities hardest hit,” thing.
They’re not immigrants! They’re invaders and thieves here to steal jobs, tax money via welfare, etc.
And they certainly aren't "U.S. immigrants," as the headline claims!
Here's what I would like to have read
As pandemic rages, border violators immediately deported
Regards,
Illegal aliens.
They shouldn’t be here, no compassion, send them home, we have our own problems to deal with, those who do care more for them than Americans should be sent back with them period! roid-ers!
Send them all to Reuters HQ, kkthx. /s
Maybe they would be more comfortable at Alcatraz.
They should ship them all to San Francisco. Plenty of hospitals there, and plenty of folks with bedrooms to share.
I think I just shed a tear... No, wait, it was just a hair in my eye.
They’re not immigrants.
Not our problem.
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