Like, they’re not telling us nothing.ĪMY GOODMAN: On Sunday, the group Never Again Action organized a protest with nearly a hundred cars outside the Hudson County Detention Center to demand New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy release people being held there. The correctional officers are telling us all, “It’s ICE. ICE don’t even come to speak to us about nothing. The COs - it’s cold outside every day - they’re going to catch this virus anytime and give it to us. The people that give us our food is from outside. I do not want to die in here without me seeing my family. These people are doing what they want to do with us, because they feel like we are immigrants, and we don’t have no help. He has since been placed in solitary confinement.ĭETAINED IMMIGRANT: We need help in here. This is part of a call recorded Friday with a man held in the immigrant detention at Essex County Correctional Facility. Immigrants at Hudson and two other New Jersey jails are now on hunger strikes over unsanitary conditions amidst the pandemic. Like detention centers, the jail holds people detained for civil immigration offenses and is now on lockdown for two weeks. Meanwhile, two people held at the Hudson County Correctional Facility in New Jersey have tested positive. ICE says there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus among detained immigrants at the facilities it runs, but at least one worker has tested positive at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey who’s a member of the medical staff. Nearly half of those detained by ICE are accused of no crime other than civil immigration violations. As the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic tops 15,000, with more than 450 deaths here in the U.S., alarm is growing about the safety of more than 37,000 people detained at immigration detention centers and private jails that contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, where it’s nearly impossible to avoid close contact and follow social distancing to stop the spread of the virus. We’re broadcasting from New York, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report.
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