US Immigrant Detention

Immigrant advocates and experts on Monday said the suspension of Biden's order will only sow fear among immigrant communities

Covid-19 "continues to spread rapidly throughout" detention centres run by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to an attorney with the non-profit ACLU

Biden's administration is instructing facilities that hold immigrant children to lift capacity restrictions enacted during the pandemic to open up beds in a system facing sharply increasing needs

The sentence is a tough blow for defenders of immigrants