"Release Is Only Way to Save Lives": Migrant Families Face Separation as COVID Spreads in ICE Jails
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#55PH0)
As the United States leads the world in coronavirus infections, we go behind the walls of immigrant jails, where infection rates are also soaring, and also look at how thousands more jailed migrant parents may be separated from their children starting Friday. Release is the only way to save the lives of people in custody," says reporter Jacob Soboroff, who went inside these ICE jails and first witnessed kids in cages in 2018, which he writes about in his new book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy."