Immigration and Customs Enforcement has pledged to limit its roundups of undocumented immigrants to those deemed a public-safety threat during the COVID-19 outbreak. But thousands of people in its jails who aren’t deemed a public safety risk will stay locked up, the immigration agency indicated to The Daily Beast. Migrants inside ICE jails and their advocates outside are warning that conditions within the tightly packed lockups […]
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Behind barbed wire, within view of Texas, 2,200 migrants live in a netherworld between U.S. and Mexican responsibility. No one’s in charge and amateurs are rushing in to help. Desperate conditions and an abiding despair are forcing awful choices. Some people think that’s the point. MATAMOROS, Mexico—In the year since the Trump Administration instituted the Migrant Protection Protocols, known as the Remain in Mexico policy, a […]