The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) announced Tuesday that
it has already released more than 250 immigrants who were being held at the Adelanto
, California
detention center
after a court ordered the population to be reduced. from jail.
The Central District Court of California determined earlier this month that the population be reduced to such a degree that it was possible for detainees to maintain a distance between them of at least six feet,
as a measure to reduce the risk of contagion of
coronavirus.
ICE said in a press release Tuesday that it had asked the federal court to transfer the detainees to other detention centers.
Hundreds of immigrants detained at an ICE facility in Adelanto released to curb COVID-19 outbreak
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The Adelanto detention center, which is run by a private company contracted by the federal government, complied with the court order and
reduced the detained population from about 730 immigrants to 465
, ICE said in a press release.
"While critics who continually seek to discredit the agency may lead the public to believe that people in detention do not pose a risk to public safety, nothing could be further from the truth," said Tony H. Pham, the ICE official. who performs the functions of director.
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The lawsuit against Adelanto was filed in April, denouncing poor sanitary conditions
amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Adelanto center began releasing the migrants earlier this month in groups of 50 people.
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