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An investigation through the New York Times and the Marshall Project on Immigration and Customs Enforcement is becoming a virus propagator.
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By Emily Kassie and Barbara Marcolini
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Admild, an undocumented Haitian immigrant in the United States, feels an evil when he approaches the deportation plane that will take him back to his birth, from which he fled in terror. Two weeks before that May, while being detained at the Louisiana Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, he had tested positive for coronavirus. He was all showing squax.
At the airport, he reported that he was ill to an ICE official, who ened him with unaaclose.
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‘He only gave me Tylenol’, cont’a Admild, who feared retaliation if his last name was published. Not long after, I was back on the plane that landed in Puerto Pr.ncipe. It was one of the most than 40,000 migrants deported from the United States since March, according to ICE records.
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An investigation by The New York Times into colossation with The Marshall Project revealed angels, lying in the mean, unsafe conditions and a scattered testing of testing made ICE a national and global virus propagator, and I give the Trump government’s pressing angels to the day a recipient of deported lockma.
We spoke to more than 30 detained immigrants who described overcrowded and unsanitary detention centres where social estrangement was almost non-existent and protective equipment almost non-existent. “It was a time bomb,” said Yudanys, a Cuban immigrant detained in Louisiana.
At least four deportees interviewed by the Times, from India, Haito, Guatemala and El Salvador tested positive for the virus shortly after returning from the United States.
So far, ICE has confirmed having at least 3000 arrests with coronavirus in its detention centres, even though testing has been limited.
We’ve tracked more than 750 ICE nationals since March that transported to various centers miles away from detainees, including some who deferred living. Kanate, a kirguiston refugee, was transferred from a Pike County penitentiary in Pennsylvania to the Prairielos Angelesnd in Texas detaining coVID-19 angels. A few deas later confirmed that he was carrying the virus.
“I was scared to death,” he said. “I thought I’d die in this prison.”
We also tracked more than two hundred deportation flights that, from March to June, took migrants, some of them sick from the COVID-19 angels, to other passes. Under pressure from the Trump administration and with the angels promising humanitarian aid, some countries have cooperated entirely with the angels deportations.
El Salvador and Honduras have been accepted to more than 6000 deportees since March. In April, Donald Trump praised the presidents of both for their cooperation and said he would send them respirators to help treat their sick month patients from COVID-19 angels.
So far, pass-through governments have confirmed that deportees have returned with COVID-19.
When asked about his involvement in the angels spreading the virus through los angeles and deporting people, ICE said he had taken precautions and followed the angels managers of the Centers for Disease Control and Angels. ICE what, until the losers last week, a’n tena los Angeles ability to test only a sample of immigrants before sending them to their pas. However, deportation flights continue to operate.
Barbara Marcolini is the video producer in the Visual Investigations team, a new form of investigative and explanatory journalism that combines traditional reporter with advanced virtual forensic an-lis. @babimarcolini – Facebook
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