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To: Ice Facilities
Release Immigrants from ICE Facilities AMID COVID-19
Release Immigrants from El Paso Processing Center Due to COVID-19
Why is this important?
My husband is currently detained at the El Paso Service Processing Center.
My husband is currently detained. We have children born in the US. I have constant communication with my husband as this COVID-19 pandemic has increased. We both find ourselves more concerned and panicked to say the least. In the borderland where we live there is already community spread. It is only a matter of time and pretty much inevitable that this virus will be introduced and spread into the center. The conditions are already poor even in their best circumstances. I know that ICE has the discretion to release people from custody and I feel like there is no better time than now. Those in detention who have families here need to be with them, especially in these dire times. Everyone in detention deserves the right to be in the best conditions to protect themselves from the virus. I am asking for your help for people in ICE custody to be heard. I am asking for a louder voice. I would like to reach the people in charge of the Detention Center as well as the ICE field office director to push them to release everyone in detention.
The Country has been declared to be in a State of Emergency. Gov. Greg Abbott on 3/19/20 sent executive orders to prohibit crowds of 10 people or more. The El Paso Service Processing Center is housing more than 60-70 people per barracks, making the center contradict orders given by Abbott. The facility has made NO changes in the way they handle possible contact contamination, no hand sanitizer, no antibacterial wipes, no deep cleaning! My husband is relying on “1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi....” to wash his hands with no antibacterial soap, and using tissue paper to avoid touching anything as his tactic to protect himself. We are in a crisis and I am begging for the life of my husband and for the lives of everyone detained by ICE, please help us be heard. Our country needs to unite and what better way than to have people unite with their families!
The number of people with COVID-19 in the country is increasing. Those detained in close quarters, like at El Paso Service Processing Center, are particularly susceptible to contracting and rapidly spreading this highly contagious virus. Medical care at ICE facilities in Texas, especially at El Paso, are inadequate, and proper measures have not been taken to ensure the safety of detained people or facility staff during this outbreak. It is impossible to practice social distancing in a detention facility.
My husband is currently detained. We have children born in the US. I have constant communication with my husband as this COVID-19 pandemic has increased. We both find ourselves more concerned and panicked to say the least. In the borderland where we live there is already community spread. It is only a matter of time and pretty much inevitable that this virus will be introduced and spread into the center. The conditions are already poor even in their best circumstances. I know that ICE has the discretion to release people from custody and I feel like there is no better time than now. Those in detention who have families here need to be with them, especially in these dire times. Everyone in detention deserves the right to be in the best conditions to protect themselves from the virus. I am asking for your help for people in ICE custody to be heard. I am asking for a louder voice. I would like to reach the people in charge of the Detention Center as well as the ICE field office director to push them to release everyone in detention.
The Country has been declared to be in a State of Emergency. Gov. Greg Abbott on 3/19/20 sent executive orders to prohibit crowds of 10 people or more. The El Paso Service Processing Center is housing more than 60-70 people per barracks, making the center contradict orders given by Abbott. The facility has made NO changes in the way they handle possible contact contamination, no hand sanitizer, no antibacterial wipes, no deep cleaning! My husband is relying on “1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi....” to wash his hands with no antibacterial soap, and using tissue paper to avoid touching anything as his tactic to protect himself. We are in a crisis and I am begging for the life of my husband and for the lives of everyone detained by ICE, please help us be heard. Our country needs to unite and what better way than to have people unite with their families!
The number of people with COVID-19 in the country is increasing. Those detained in close quarters, like at El Paso Service Processing Center, are particularly susceptible to contracting and rapidly spreading this highly contagious virus. Medical care at ICE facilities in Texas, especially at El Paso, are inadequate, and proper measures have not been taken to ensure the safety of detained people or facility staff during this outbreak. It is impossible to practice social distancing in a detention facility.
How it will be delivered
I have reached out to several Immigration Advocacy Groups, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.