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An immigrant with a “severe” case of COVID-19 who was arrested in last year’s Mississippi ICE raids is “at risk of dying” in an ICE prison, his family says.
During Francisca Morales Diaz’ last week at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in mid-March, guards told her and the 71 other women in her cell block that they would soon run out of toilet paper and soap, even as the novel coronavirus was spreading across the south. Diaz, a diabetic whose disease makes her especially susceptible to COVID-19, had already spent nearly eight months in ICE custody in the prison.
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