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And they have endangered the community at large.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge intervened after immigrants held at Mesa Verde and another detention center north of Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/legal-docket/zepeda-rivas-v-jennings-immigration-detention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sued\u003c/a> in April to force ICE to release detainees on bond or parole to allow for social distancing at the jail-like facilities, and to implement other changes to protect people who remained in their custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/Binder1.pdf\">Emails\u003c/a> between ICE and GEO — recently unearthed during litigation — showed immigration officials avoided widespread testing among detainees and staffers, Chhabria said, out of fear that “positive test results would require them to implement safety measures they apparently felt were not worth the trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE spokesman Jonathan Moore said the agency could not comment due to pending litigation, and referred KQED to more information in ICE’s coronavirus \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webpage\u003c/a>. A spokesperson for GEO responded similarly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least nine detainees at Mesa Verde have been diagnosed with COVID-19, including two who were transferred in recent weeks from California state prisons, according to attorneys representing immigrants held at the facility. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, ICE has continued to bring people from state prisons and local jails with severe COVID-19 outbreaks into Mesa Verde and other facilities, said immigrant advocates and detainees. Most of those transferred were about to be released to the community after serving their sentences when ICE arrested them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Chhabria’s order halting new intakes at Mesa Verde comes as dozens of state lawmakers and elected officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827617/state-lawmakers-urge-newsom-to-stop-transferring-people-in-prison-to-ice-in-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have called\u003c/a> on Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop transfers from state prisons into ICE custody during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has refused to do so, and his office did not returned a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope the governor takes note,” said Susan Beaty, an attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza, who has spoken with dozens of detainees at Mesa Verde in recent weeks. “I hope that he sees that there's a federal judge saying (stopping intakes) is a necessary measure to protect the health of people in Mesa Verde.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaty said that as recently as last week, a man moved to the detention center from Avenal State Prison, which has more than 380 active \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 cases\u003c/a>, was not quarantined or tested for the virus before he was placed in a dorm with several of other detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mesa Verde officials gave the recently arrived detainee a paper mask “with a hole right in front of where his mouth is,” she said, which would not protect him or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"immigration,ICE\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, the coronavirus has spread rapidly at California state prisons and immigration detention facilities. As of Friday, more than 8,600 people in prisons had been diagnosed with COVID-19, with nearly a thousand detected in the last 14 days, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. In addition, nearly 2,000 prison employees had tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> close to 4,200 detainees and 45 employees have been confirmed with COVID-19 at detention centers nationwide. Several more workers at privately run detention facilities may also have had the coronavirus, but the agency does not include them in their tally of employees with positive COVID-19 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Mesa Verde, 14 workers at the for-profit GEO Group have tested positive, said Emi MacLean, a plaintiff attorney with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office in the case being considered by Chhabria, Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings. GEO did not return a request for confirmation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacLean said Chhabria’s most recent order was, while very important, a “stopgap measure” because social distancing remains impossible for detainees sleeping in dorms with dozens others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still people in the facility who are in a highly risky condition and who should be released,” MacLean said. “People are terrified. There are individuals who have called crying, saying, ‘I am afraid that the only way out of Mesa Verde is going to be in a body bag.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacLean said the facility held nearly 300 people back in April, when detainees sued ICE and GEO Group. Since then, Chhabria has ordered the release of about 130 individuals, while ICE let out dozens more at high risk of severe illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Mesa Verde detainees in a written statement']'It takes days to see a doctor, and even then, they often just give us Tylenol and send us back to our dorms. We had to fight hard to get tested for COVID-19, and most of us still do not know our status.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its response to the pandemic, ICE has tested nearly 21,100 detainees and released more than 900 people nationwide after reviewing their immigration history, criminal record and other factors, according to the agency. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 120 people remain at Mesa Verde. Just hours after Chhabria’s directive, detainees said two of those confirmed with COVID-19 had been hospitalized — including an elderly disabled man who was still in the ER and another man who they said was brought back to the facility and left gravely ill for hours in solitary confinement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dozens of people in our dorms are showing symptoms of COVID-19, and are desperate for care,” said the detainees in a written \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/MV-COVID-19-Outbreak-Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>. “It takes days to see a doctor, and even then, they often just give us Tylenol and send us back to our dorms. 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In California, as of Monday, a total of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">5,346 people in the state prison system\u003c/a> and 949 state prison staff have been diagnosed with the virus. In addition, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\">2,742 people in ICE detention\u003c/a> have tested positive for COVID-19, along with 45 ICE employees — and scores of private prison workers — at detention centers nationally, including more than 200 people who have been sickened at ICE facilities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-citizen immigrants, even those with longstanding, legal permanent residence, can be subject to deportation if they have a criminal record. Immigration officials commonly issue a “detainer,” requesting that prison officials notify them when an incarcerated immigrant is set to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"california-state-prison\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week Ralph Diaz, the head of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said in a state Senate hearing that his agency does inform ICE of incarcerated immigrants’ release dates, and coordinates a transfer to ICE agents who take the person into custody. He said he had no plan to end the practice, which he said was the same way that CDCR responds to a hold placed by any other law enforcement agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in their letter to Newsom, Bonta and the other lawmakers said California is under no legal obligation to assist the federal government with deportations, and the governor and CDCR can end the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for comment by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates said Monday that transfers from CDCR are the primary way that people are being taken into ICE custody in California since the start of the pandemic. CDCR transferred 575 people to ICE between Jan. 1 to May 13, according to Angela Chan, policy director for the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan said she is aware of only one instance this year in which a person was released from state prison and not picked up by ICE — that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827388/cambodian-refugee-leaves-san-quentin-with-covid-19-but-avoids-ice-detention\">the case of Chanthon Bun\u003c/a>, a Cambodian refugee who was set free from San Quentin State Prison last week after earning early parole, having served 23 years of a 49-year sentence for an armed robbery he committed as a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day of his release, Bun went for a COVID-19 test and found out he had been infected inside the prison. 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"content": "\u003cp>When she started working at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego two years ago, Erica Brooks was the master scheduler, so she got to know all the detention officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This March, Brooks said she was working as a detention officer when she started hearing that her co-workers were getting sick with the coronavirus. But for weeks, she said, there was no official word from her bosses at the facility, which holds immigrants awaiting deportation hearings and federal defendants awaiting trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her employer, CoreCivic, one of the nation’s largest private prison companies, handed out a flyer from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that encouraged handwashing, she said, but the company wasn’t taking obvious steps to protect inmates and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s things that you can do to prevent it,” Brooks said. “But those things weren’t being done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As late as the end of March, when the state was under shelter-in-place orders to limit the spread of the coronavirus, meals were still served in the “chow hall” with hundreds of people from different housing units congregating together, Brooks said. Radios, keys and handcuffs all passed between officers throughout the day, and they weren’t getting sanitized, she said, and staff members were not screened for symptoms when they arrived for their shifts. In addition, there was no social distancing at the daily staff briefings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’d be sometimes 30 to 50 people in a small room, talking,” she said. “That wasn’t safe to me, sitting in that room with whomever, asymptomatic or someone sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks was anxious. By the end of March, she had stopped going to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before the number of infections at the detention center climbed to more than 250 — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus#tab2\">largest outbreak\u003c/a> at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility anywhere in the country. And on May 7, ICE officials confirmed that a 57-year-old man detained at Otay Mesa had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816707/man-dies-of-covid-19-in-san-diego-ice-detention-center-lawyers-say\">died of COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, Brooks sued her employer CoreCivic. At least two other officers from Otay Mesa have done the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Erica Brooks, former detention officer, Otay Mesa Detention Center\"]‘My coworker, she worked in receiving, she got sick with COVID. She went home. Her husband got sick with COVID. They both went to the ICU. And her husband did not make it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Gustin, a spokesman for CoreCivic, said the company wouldn’t comment on pending litigation. But he said in a statement, “The Otay Mesa Detention Center has taken affirmative and proactive measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, and followed the most current guidance from medical and industry experts on best practices and recommendations for safe operations. Our practices have evolved and changed as the CDC guidance and recommendations have evolved over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin said that meals are now served in individual housing units, staff are now screened when arriving for work and detainees with COVID-19 are housed in “cohorts.” He also said protective masks have been provided to all staff and detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t happen until after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812701/senators-want-to-know-if-ice-detainees-were-pepper-sprayed-after-requesting-masks\">detainees protested on April 10\u003c/a>, demanding masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits filed by Brooks and her co-workers come at a time of growing scrutiny of the pandemic’s severe impacts on essential front line workers, and also on incarcerated people — both groups disproportionately comprise people of color, including Erica Brooks, who is African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lethal Outbreaks in Prisons\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Massive — and lethal — outbreaks of the coronavirus have been surging through not only the Otay Mesa facility, but a number of state and federal prisons in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">3,018 state prison inmates had tested positive\u003c/a> for COVID-19, along with 408 employees of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The biggest outbreaks have been at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Avenal State Prison, the California Institution for Men and the California Institution for Women. And 12 inmates have died, all at the California Institution for Men in San Bernardino County, as well as one CDCR staff member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lance Wilson, Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution inmate“]‘People are sick all around me. They are giving us a death sentence. The likelihood of becoming infected is enormous.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/index.jsp\">federal prisons\u003c/a> at Lompoc, in Santa Barbara County, have confirmed cases in 42 staff members, as well as 1,069 inmates — four of whom have died, as of Monday. And the Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution, in Los Angeles, had a total of 17 employees and 690 inmates with COVID-19 — including nine inmates who have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing last week before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, public health expert Dr. Scott Allen \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/17/we-must-release-prisoners-lessen-spread-coronavirus/\">warned\u003c/a> that prisons and detention centers are “densely populated and poorly designed to prevent the inevitable rapid and widespread dissemination” of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This virus does not care who you are or what uniform you wear,” Allen, a retired professor of medicine from UC Riverside who serves as a health expert for the Department of Homeland Security, said in written testimony to the judiciary committee. “It can easily move in and out of facilities undetected in the absence of aggressive testing-based surveillance and containment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘They Are Left to Die’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the inmates sick with the virus at Terminal Island federal prison is Lance Wilson, 35, an African American man from Modesto with hypertension and asthma. Terminal Island houses more than 1,000 low-security inmates with chronic and complex medical conditions in a facility that was designed for 800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of letters Wilson wrote after the prison cut off email and telephone access in April, reportedly to prevent the spread of the virus, he told his brother Jacque Wilson that his bunk was only two feet away from his cellmate — and that the growing number of ill inmates were not being separated from healthy ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11823572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Wilson with his daughter at her birthday party in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lance Wilson with his daughter at her birthday party in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Wilson family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 29, Lance wrote, “People are sick all around me. They are giving us a death sentence. The likelihood of becoming infected is enormous.” Three days later, he tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque is an attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender’s office and said Lance is serving a sentence for playing a role in a prescription drug theft ring. His brother’s story reflects the experience of many incarcerated people during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said his brother has had chills, headaches and shortness of breath but has not been seen by a doctor and hasn’t had his temperature taken since May 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart just bleeds for those individuals who are locked up,” said Jacque. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it: They are left to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said he has helped his brother file a petition for compassionate release. On May 16, the ACLU filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/aclu_socal_wilson_20200516_complaint.pdf\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, with Lance Wilson as a lead plaintiff, that calls on the Federal Bureau of Prisons to release inmates and ensure safe social distancing and sanitary measures at Terminal Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit seeks to have Lance released to home confinement,” said Jacque. “The Constitution requires that prison officials provide a safe environment for those people that are in custody. Where Lance is at now is not a safe environment. It’s not a safe environment for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment because of the pending lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit is one of numerous legal actions filed around California and across the country seeking to protect incarcerated people from the coronavirus. A number of lawsuits filed against ICE have led to the release of dozens of detainees, especially medically vulnerable people, at Otay Mesa and other facilities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has also been reducing the number of people it is holding in detention during the pandemic. The number of detainees has dropped to 25,000 nationally — less than half what it was a year ago when the Trump Administration held a record 52,000 immigrants in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though ICE has only tested 20% of the people in its custody for COVID-19, more than half of those tests have come back positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of detainees at ICE’s Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield, say the agency is not doing enough to protect them and last Thursday announced a hunger strike in protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘How Am I Supposed to Protect Myself?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the number of cases at the Otay Mesa Detention Center grew this spring, detention officer Brooks said she scrambled to figure out how to protect herself, her husband and her 3-year-old son. When she came home from work, she would strip off her uniform in the garage and scrub down in the shower before saying hello to her little boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks is just 30 years old, but because she’s overweight she fears she’s at a higher risk of complications from COVID-19. And, she said, she’s keenly aware that her family is African American. Statistically, African Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race\">more than twice as likely to die\u003c/a> from the coronavirus as people of other races. And Brooks didn’t want to become a statistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My coworker, she worked in receiving, she got sick with COVID. She went home. Her husband got sick with COVID. They both went to the ICU. And her husband did not make it,” said Brooks. “I don’t want to be her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said she was never issued a mask by her employer, and she and other officers were told they shouldn’t wear them because masks would intimidate the detainees. But Brooks said detainees told her they feared guards could be bringing the virus into the facility and wanted them to wear masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a nurse at the facility gave her a mask, Brooks said she started wearing it on the job. Then a supervisor approached her during an overnight shift, in the wee hours of the morning on March 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically he said, I want to let you know that it’s a violation of a direct order to wear your mask,” said Brooks. “So we got into a conversation and I asked him, ‘Well, how am I supposed to protect myself?’ And when I told him that, he looked at me and he said, ‘Look at your I.D. card. It’s a number, not a name. Everybody’s disposable.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the last straw for Brooks. She took a month off from work before realizing she couldn’t go back. She said it has been tough financially — she’s getting unemployment benefits, but she had to cash out her retirement account to cover the bills. Still, she has no regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"otay-mesa\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, 29 of her CoreCivic coworkers have been infected, along with 11 ICE staff members at Otay Mesa. In addition, 162 ICE detainees and 71 federal inmates there have tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her lawsuit, Brooks and her attorneys write that CoreCivic failed to train detention officers “on how to handle infectious diseases, yet they are on the front lines of interacting with potentially infected persons.” They are asking the court to award punitive damages to push CoreCivic to better protect staff in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer, I gave everything that I had to the detainees, who are human. You know, we’re all human,” she said. “When you give your all to something and you continuously try to put your best foot forward … and then you get told, ‘You’re number, not a name’ … I just was devastated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks’s husband, an electrical engineer, has been going to work at job sites, but she thinks his company is taking the right safety precautions. For herself, she said she’s relieved to be done with a job where she felt helpless and unsafe. She said she’s spending a lot of time with her son now and looking for a different career path.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Gustin, a spokesman for CoreCivic, said the company wouldn’t comment on pending litigation. But he said in a statement, “The Otay Mesa Detention Center has taken affirmative and proactive measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, and followed the most current guidance from medical and industry experts on best practices and recommendations for safe operations. Our practices have evolved and changed as the CDC guidance and recommendations have evolved over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin said that meals are now served in individual housing units, staff are now screened when arriving for work and detainees with COVID-19 are housed in “cohorts.” He also said protective masks have been provided to all staff and detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t happen until after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812701/senators-want-to-know-if-ice-detainees-were-pepper-sprayed-after-requesting-masks\">detainees protested on April 10\u003c/a>, demanding masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits filed by Brooks and her co-workers come at a time of growing scrutiny of the pandemic’s severe impacts on essential front line workers, and also on incarcerated people — both groups disproportionately comprise people of color, including Erica Brooks, who is African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lethal Outbreaks in Prisons\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Massive — and lethal — outbreaks of the coronavirus have been surging through not only the Otay Mesa facility, but a number of state and federal prisons in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">3,018 state prison inmates had tested positive\u003c/a> for COVID-19, along with 408 employees of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The biggest outbreaks have been at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Avenal State Prison, the California Institution for Men and the California Institution for Women. And 12 inmates have died, all at the California Institution for Men in San Bernardino County, as well as one CDCR staff member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And the Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution, in Los Angeles, had a total of 17 employees and 690 inmates with COVID-19 — including nine inmates who have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing last week before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, public health expert Dr. Scott Allen \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/17/we-must-release-prisoners-lessen-spread-coronavirus/\">warned\u003c/a> that prisons and detention centers are “densely populated and poorly designed to prevent the inevitable rapid and widespread dissemination” of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This virus does not care who you are or what uniform you wear,” Allen, a retired professor of medicine from UC Riverside who serves as a health expert for the Department of Homeland Security, said in written testimony to the judiciary committee. “It can easily move in and out of facilities undetected in the absence of aggressive testing-based surveillance and containment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘They Are Left to Die’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the inmates sick with the virus at Terminal Island federal prison is Lance Wilson, 35, an African American man from Modesto with hypertension and asthma. Terminal Island houses more than 1,000 low-security inmates with chronic and complex medical conditions in a facility that was designed for 800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of letters Wilson wrote after the prison cut off email and telephone access in April, reportedly to prevent the spread of the virus, he told his brother Jacque Wilson that his bunk was only two feet away from his cellmate — and that the growing number of ill inmates were not being separated from healthy ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11823572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Wilson with his daughter at her birthday party in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lance Wilson with his daughter at her birthday party in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Wilson family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 29, Lance wrote, “People are sick all around me. They are giving us a death sentence. The likelihood of becoming infected is enormous.” Three days later, he tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque is an attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender’s office and said Lance is serving a sentence for playing a role in a prescription drug theft ring. His brother’s story reflects the experience of many incarcerated people during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said his brother has had chills, headaches and shortness of breath but has not been seen by a doctor and hasn’t had his temperature taken since May 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart just bleeds for those individuals who are locked up,” said Jacque. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it: They are left to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said he has helped his brother file a petition for compassionate release. On May 16, the ACLU filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/aclu_socal_wilson_20200516_complaint.pdf\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, with Lance Wilson as a lead plaintiff, that calls on the Federal Bureau of Prisons to release inmates and ensure safe social distancing and sanitary measures at Terminal Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit seeks to have Lance released to home confinement,” said Jacque. “The Constitution requires that prison officials provide a safe environment for those people that are in custody. Where Lance is at now is not a safe environment. It’s not a safe environment for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment because of the pending lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit is one of numerous legal actions filed around California and across the country seeking to protect incarcerated people from the coronavirus. A number of lawsuits filed against ICE have led to the release of dozens of detainees, especially medically vulnerable people, at Otay Mesa and other facilities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has also been reducing the number of people it is holding in detention during the pandemic. The number of detainees has dropped to 25,000 nationally — less than half what it was a year ago when the Trump Administration held a record 52,000 immigrants in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though ICE has only tested 20% of the people in its custody for COVID-19, more than half of those tests have come back positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of detainees at ICE’s Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield, say the agency is not doing enough to protect them and last Thursday announced a hunger strike in protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘How Am I Supposed to Protect Myself?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the number of cases at the Otay Mesa Detention Center grew this spring, detention officer Brooks said she scrambled to figure out how to protect herself, her husband and her 3-year-old son. 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An immigration judge had denied his release on bond April 15, deeming him a flight risk, ICE said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobar-Mejia, originally from El Salvador, first came to the United States in 1980, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the statement, ICE reported that 181 immigrants held in detention at the Otay Mesa Detention Center have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since April 1, with 140 of them currently in ICE custody. As of Thursday, 753 detainees nationwide have been confirmed to have the virus, out of 1528 tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Otay Mesa facility stopped accepting new detainees on April 2, according to the ICE statement, and the total number of people held there has been reduced — from 996 on Feb. 29, to 629 as of May 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 57-year-old man held at an immigration detention facility in San Diego has died of COVID-19, immigrant advocates reported Wednesday. It is the first known coronavirus death among the roughly 30,000 people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials would not confirm the death, saying the agency’s policy is to announce detainee deaths within 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, identified as Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2020-05-06/first-ice-detainee-dies-from-covid-19-after-being-hospitalized-from-otay-mesa-detention-center\">by The San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/a>, was originally from El Salvador and had been held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center for about four months. He had spent his last days in a hospital, where he died, according to Dulce Garcia, executive director of the advocacy group Border Angels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE set up a death trap and it was just a matter of time,” said Garcia, an attorney who represents immigrants detained at Otay Mesa. “We’ve known for weeks that they don’t have enough testing for everyone in there, and when you do test positive they put you into these cohorts with 100 other people. They should be releasing everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another San Diego immigration lawyer said a distraught client of his at Otay Mesa called him to say that guards had come to her pod Wednesday morning and told detainees that a man housed in another pod had died of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can feel in her voice how scared she is,” attorney Ian Seruelo said of his client, a Mexican asylum-seeker who is trying to get released from custody. “There is this atmosphere inside where everyone is scared of what’s going to happen. They’re living on the edge. They don’t know if they could be the next one to be infected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The death comes one week after a federal judge in San Diego \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2020-04-30-38-ORD-Granting-TRO.pdf\">ordered\u003c/a> ICE to immediately consider dozens of medically vulnerable people, including those 60 or older, for release from detention at Otay Mesa. As of Monday, just two individuals had been released.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ian Seruelo, immigration attorney\"]‘There is this atmosphere inside where everyone is scared of what’s going to happen. They’re living on the edge. They don’t know if they could be the next one to be infected.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his emergency order, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw called the conditions at the Otay Mesa facility unconstitutional, because they put detainees “at substantial risk of serious illness or death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order followed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2020-04-21-Class-Complaint-FINAL.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed by the ACLU of San Diego, calling for ICE and private prison operator CoreCivic to dramatically reduce the number of detainees at Otay Mesa. ACLU staff attorney Monika Langarica said Escobar Mejia should have been released as medically vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today one of those people has died because ICE refused to release him when he still had a chance to survive this deadly virus,” said Langarica in a statement Wednesday. “We continue to call on ICE and CoreCivic to act urgently and with humanity. This tragic news is even more evidence that failing to act will result in cruel and needless death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is one of numerous suits filed in federal courts around the country in recent weeks, urgently requesting ICE to protect detained immigrants by releasing them from custody and implementing stronger social distancing and hygiene measures for those who remain locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with ICE and CoreCivic did not respond to repeated requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Seruelo said his client should also be released, based on her heightened risk for complications of COVID-19. He said she had been treated for diabetes for years in Mexico but lacked documentation of her condition. He also said she had been tested for diabetes two weeks ago by ICE medical staff but was still waiting for the test results to be released to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11812701,news_11813475,news_11809081 label='Related Coverage']There are currently 132 ICE detainees and 10 ICE staff at Otay Mesa who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the agency. That’s more than triple the number of cases two weeks ago, and by far the largest outbreak at an ICE detention center. In addition, CoreCivic has reported at least nine of its employees with confirmed cases. And 54 federal prisoners held for the U.S. Marshals Service at the facility have also been diagnosed with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\">ICE reports\u003c/a> that it has tested 1,460 detained people for COVID-19 and 705 of those tests — almost half — have come back positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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They’re spraying pepper spray into the cells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, she says, “They’re taking people out of the cells in handcuffs,” and then begins to shriek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic, the private prison operator that runs Otay Mesa under contract with ICE, denied that staff used force, and said in a statement, “regarding the pepper spray claim, those allegations are patently false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temporary removal of three detainees from one of the pods was in direct response to their being disruptive during the issuance of the face masks,” wrote Amanda Gilchrist, CoreCivic’s public affairs director. “At no time was any force used to remove these individuals, and they were returned to the pod a short while later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilchrist added that no signed waiver will be required to receive a mask, and that all detainees have been issued face masks. In her statement, she also said that CoreCivic is working with ICE medical staff to screen employees, disinfect surfaces, encourage social distancing and hand-washing and quarantine sick detainees and people they’ve had contact with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the company’s quarantine approach has raised concerns for another immigrant advocate. Attorney Dulce Garcia, executive director of the group Border Angels, said she’s been trying to post a bond for an asylum-seeker who has been approved for release but said officials told her he had to stay in his quarantined unit for 14 days, even though he’s not sick and hasn’t been tested for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one can get out of the cohort,” said Garcia. “Today we received notice that they moved someone who tested positive and had a fever last week into the cohort. Every time they put a new person in, the clock starts again. 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Courts have made similar rulings in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, and other cases are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some elected officials — including Harris and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra — are \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/4.13.20%20-%20Letter%20to%20DHS%20Acting%20Secretary.pdf\">asking ICE\u003c/a> to go further and release detainees who pose no threat to public safety. And this week, Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/MDM20356.pdf\">introduced a bill \u003c/a>to move most inmates out of ICE detention and suspend most immigration enforcement during the current pandemic and future public health emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in ICE custody are not serving criminal sentences; they are being held in administrative detention while awaiting hearings in immigration court. The detained population has swelled under President Trump, reaching more than 52,000 last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile lawyers for immigrants at Otay Mesa and other detention centers, including the large Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in Bakersfield, say their clients have launched hunger strikes to push for release or at least better protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recording made Saturday and obtained by KQED, Pablo Ramirez, a detained man at Mesa Verde, said he and others had started a hunger strike the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s virus in here. We have a feeling it might get in here,” said Ramirez. “They’re not treating us with the medical care that we need. They don’t test us for anything. 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In California, lawyers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/documents/6823406-Ortu%C3%B1o-et-al-v-ICE-habeas-corpus-petition\">filed suit in federal court\u003c/a> seeking the release of 13 immigrant detainees who have chronic medical conditions and would be at high risk if they contract the novel coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810085\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11810085\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/2000x-e1585769177827.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1418\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salomón Medina-Calderón, 56, who is being held at the Yuba County Jail, is one of 13 detainees suing ICE for their release due to the risk of the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Guadalupe Medina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salomón Medina-Calderón is one of the immigrants named in the lawsuit filed against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and other legal advocacy groups. Born in Mexico, he’s raised six children over his three decades in the U.S. At 56 years old, Medina-Calderón is nearly blind and has diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not want to die somewhere like this, in an ICE detention center,” he said in Spanish. “My wish is, for (my) last moments — days or years, I don't know, it depends — to be with my family, to have an end close to my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s being held in the Yuba County Jail, one of two immigration detention facilities in California cited in the lawsuit. The jail is in Marysville, about 40 miles north of Sacramento. It’s a blocky, beige facility holding both county jail inmates and nearly 150 immigrant detainees on Wednesday, according to ICE. There are 50 men in Medina-Calderón’s unit, according to Sgt. 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Rodarte fears they’ve run out of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think our chief concern is that it’s already too late. As the scenario gets worse and worse around the country, individuals will die, and the risk is higher for these individuals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus has so far not been reported in ICE facilities in California, but people held in other parts of the country are just as frightened as Medina-Calderón. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='David, a detainee being held in New Jersey']'I’m afraid I can potentially lose my life. I don’t feel I deserve to die here.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday night, ICE said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\">four people in its custody had tested positive for COVID-19\u003c/a>, all in New Jersey. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin called on Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday to use his executive authority to shut down federal immigration detention centers in California to protect public health during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The call came amid a growing outcry by medical experts, immigrant advocates and a former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the potential danger of COVID-19 in ICE detention facilities. And it followed a lawsuit filed by 13 medically vulnerable detained immigrants in California, calling on ICE to release them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Thursday, U.S. Sen. 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Four ICE facilities in California are operated by private prison companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also called on the governor to order state prisons to stop handing over inmates to ICE, adding that California prisons hold approximately 11,000 people who, under current policy, will be handed over to ICE after they have served their criminal sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a huge pipeline of people whose lives are being jeopardized during the coronavirus pandemic,” said Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s press secretary Vicky Waters would not comment on whether the governor would consider such steps, but she said in a statement: “The federal government has exclusive authority over immigration law, but as we continue to grapple with the COVID-19 outbreak, we want everyone in the state to know that their health and welfare is our top priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Chesa Boudin, San Francisco District Attorney\"]'That’s a huge pipeline of people whose lives are being jeopardized during the coronavirus pandemic.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, advocates in California and across the country voiced concern that an outbreak of COVID-19 inside any of the nation’s 138 ICE detention facilities could affect not just the immigrants and staff inside, but also the families and communities that ICE employees return to at the end of their shifts, and the hospitals where patients from ICE facilities would be taken for care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday evening, ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/covid19\">reported\u003c/a> two confirmed cases of COVID-19 among people held in detention in Newark and Hackensack, New Jersey. 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The detainees are held in Yuba County Jail, in Marysville, and the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility, a private prison in Bakersfield operated by the GEO Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs called on ICE to release them because of their advanced age and underlying medical conditions — which they believe puts them at risk of death if they contract COVID-19. They said they are being held in crowded and unsanitary conditions where they are denied the ability to protect themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One plaintiff, Sofia Bahena Ortuno, a 64-year-old farmworker and grandmother who said she suffers from hypothyroidism and diabetes, was released the same day the lawsuit was filed, according to her lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, along with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and Lakin & Wille, LLP. 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An ICE spokesman directed KQED to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/covid19\">agency's coronavirus webpage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website states that “ICE epidemiologists have been tracking the outbreak, regularly updating infection prevention and control protocols, and issuing guidance to ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC) staff for the screening and management of potential exposure among detainees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has suspended visits by friends and family members and “is actively working with state and local health partners to determine if any detainee requires additional testing or monitoring to combat the spread of the virus,” the website said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Sen. Dianne Feinstein\"]'Critical matters, such as bond hearings for adult detainees and emergency hearings for children, should be handled telephonically. The benefit of reducing the risk to public health outweighs pressing forward with non-critical matters during this pandemic.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, lawyers representing children in immigration custody asked a federal judge in Los Angeles for an order requiring the government to release every child to a guardian within seven days or explain why it didn’t to a court-appointed monitor. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin called on Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday to use his executive authority to shut down federal immigration detention centers in California to protect public health during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The call came amid a growing outcry by medical experts, immigrant advocates and a former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the potential danger of COVID-19 in ICE detention facilities. And it followed a lawsuit filed by 13 medically vulnerable detained immigrants in California, calling on ICE to release them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Thursday, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/0/9/0979f829-5357-4445-bb38-b98f47830583/280AF56FBFEB41A5FBAD5C414F21993E.2020.03.25-doj-immigration-courts.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> she sent to Attorney General William Barr, calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to suspend all immigration court hearings during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin said San Francisco has safely reduced its jail population by 25 percent over the past three weeks. And he said releasing some of the 38,000 people currently detained by ICE nationwide should be easier because immigration custody is a form of civil, not criminal, detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone dies in immigration detention, their blood will be on our hands,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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You would not be able to tell walking into that facility that the entire country is in a state of emergency.'[/pullquote]Earlier this week, operations at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in Bakersfield seemed like “business as usual,” said Ambar Tovar, a directing attorney with the United Farm Workers Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no additional screening of visitors, no visible signage about how to prevent the spread of the virus or protect oneself and no readily available hand sanitizer in meeting rooms, said Tovar, who frequently visits detained clients at the 400-bed facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are no increased precautions that I saw are being taken,” Tovar said. “You would not be able to tell walking into that facility that the entire country is in a state of emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wondered how much information on the coronavirus has been communicated to detainees, whose top complaint is delayed or inadequate medical care, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody were to exhibit any symptoms related to the coronavirus, how long will it take for those symptoms to be addressed?” Tovar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the detention center in Adelanto, where federal inspectors have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696870/scathing-report-on-california-immigration-jail-comes-amid-growing-calls-to-improve-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> substandard medical care, employees on Tuesday also did not appear to take additional precautions, said Lizbeth Abeln, immigrant detention coordinator with the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As of now, we don't see any sense of urgency from the staff or from ICE, which is kind of normal for the facility, given the history of medical neglect and the lack of process when it comes to diseases,” said Abeln, who visits detainees about once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mesa Verde and Adelanto immigration detention centers are owned and operated by The Geo Group, Inc., one of the nation’s largest private prison companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Florida-based company said they are working closely with federal and state health officials, and have issued guidance to facilities, in line with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]“We will continue to monitor and evaluate in conjunction with our government partners and local health agencies to ensure the health and safety of all those in our care,” said a Geo Group spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Friday afternoon, ICE announced it is now suspending social visitation at detention centers, including by volunteers from nonprofits who help monitor conditions inside the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE currently detains about \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-management?_ga=2.121597704.1440191402.1566244254-1011480269.1566244254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">38,000\u003c/a> people on any given day. 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The data is sent to the FBI and entered into a criminal database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-dhs080-detaineedna-january2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">memo\u003c/a> from the federal Department of Homeland Security says, “prompt DNA-sample collection could be essential to the detection and solution of crimes [aliens] may have committed or may commit in the United States.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Trump administration also argues collecting DNA will stop migrant adults from smuggling children across the border and falsely posing as their parents. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates counter that the program will not reduce criminal activity or help solve crimes because \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607652253/studies-say-illegal-immigration-does-not-increase-violent-crime\">multiple studies\u003c/a> show that illegal immigration does not result in more lawlessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The U.S. Border Patrol agents are learning how to collect DNA from a training video provided by the FBI. People who refuse to submit samples could face misdemeanor charges. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Whose DNA is Collected? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federal agents are collecting cheek swabs from people as young as 14 who are in immigration custody at two U.S. locations: at the Canadian border in and around Detroit, and at the official port of entry in Eagle Pass, Texas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal permanent residents and those planning to enter the country legally will not be required to submit samples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pilot program began on Jan. 6 and will continue for 90 days. The government plans to expand the program nationwide. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At present, more than 40,000 people are in medium or long term detention. About a million people circulate through immigration custody each year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]“It casts Latinos as would-be criminals. The racial profiling of this program is unconscionable.” Charleen Adams, geneticist[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People land in detention for a variety of reasons: crossing the border illegally, seeking asylum, work site raids, or overstaying a visa. Most \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">detainees have \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/583/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no criminal record\u003c/a>. However, migrants’ DNA\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> samples are registered and held in perpetuity in the FBI criminal database, the Combined Index Data System (CODIS). Historically, that archive has housed genetic information from people who have been arrested, charged or convicted in relation to serious crimes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Privacy Concerns\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Civil rights advocates worry the expanded genetic testing compromises the privacy of people in detention and their families. Some scientists fear the information could wrongfully target a vulnerable population and lead to false criminal convictions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vera Eidelman, a staff lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, calls the program population surveillance. She said the government could use the genetic information to locate family members or even deny people health insurance because DNA is much more powerful than a fingerprint. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does not simply identify me as Vera,” Eidelman said. “It also says Vera is related to x, y and z other people. By the way, she also has the BRCA gene or other propensities for medical conditions. It is not simply about identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Hank Greely, a bioethicist at Stanford University, worries less than Eidelman about these potential uses. Although it is not explicitly clear what genetic information the government will catalog, experts assume it’s the 20 markers that make up the typical DNA profile in the FBI database. This is not a detailed analysis. It’s much less information than a 23andMe or Ancestry.com test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had a kid at the border and wanted to know whether its father was in the CODIS database,” Greely said in an email, “you would likely get hundreds of hits, whether or not the father actually was in the database. That’s not very helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greely said the government’s efforts to collect DNA are a waste of money because, in his opinion, it’s unlikely the current administration will allow many of the detainees into the country so the likelihood they’ll commit crimes here is also limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is no good reason to collect personal data, including DNA data, and it isn’t being done voluntarily, then it’s unethical: some risk for no gain is not ethical,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not the first time DNA collection efforts have alarmed civil rights advocates. California and other states already collect samples from anyone \u003cem>arrested\u003c/em> for a felony offense. That has helped to solve crimes, but the practice is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/tns-california-dna-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversial\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Possible Wrongful Convictions\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scientists fear the program could put the wrong people behind bars because DNA is not foolproof. Someone’s DNA could end up at a crime scene they’ve never visited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We pick it [DNA] up and we do transfer it,” said Greg Hampikian, a forensic geneticist at Boise State University. “It’s in the hair we leave behind. 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Finally in 2015, after Italian DNA experts reviewed the case Knox was pronounced not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Americans find DNA evidence strongly persuasive. A 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/1603/crime.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gallup poll\u003c/a> showed that 85 percent of Americans consider DNA evidence to be very or completely convincing. Once a DNA sample is entered into a trial as evidence it is very difficult to convince a jury the accused is innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Future Implications\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Charleen Adams, a geneticist at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., \u003c/span>worries the program sets people up to distrust researchers. 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"content": "\u003cp>Libia Yamamoto has a feel for fashion — even as a young girl in a World War II detention camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent trip back to the place where she was imprisoned for four years as a child, Yamamoto showed me a class photo. She was 10 years old at the time, and in the picture she's smiling at the camera, dark hair swept back in a ribbon, sporting a plaid tailored dress with a flared skirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto is now 84. Her hair is white, but still carefully coiffed. On this cold November day she’s bundled up in a long wool coat as she waits to board a chartered bus. I'm joining her as she travels more than 100 miles from San Antonio to Crystal City, Texas, where she was interned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon we’re rolling down the highway into rural South Texas, in a convoy of buses carrying 170 people who all share some connection to the Crystal City Internment Camp. They are making this pilgrimage to draw attention to a little-known injustice of WWII that seems more relevant than ever: They see a repeat of their own history in the large-scale detention of migrant families in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Latin American Libia Yamamoto reunited with others who were interned in Crystal City, Texas, during WWII.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Latin American Libia Yamamoto reunited with others who were interned in Crystal City, Texas, during WWII. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto was born in Peru to parents who had immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. The family owned several thriving businesses in the coastal city of Chiclayo and lived a comfortable life on a hacienda with servants and chauffeurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That life unraveled after the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after that attack, police in Peru arrested Yamamoto's father and took him to the local jail. Yamamoto and her mother arrived there the next morning just in time to see police load him onto a truck with other men and drive away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto said her mother, who had kept her composure until then, burst into tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto cried too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In between sobs, I would ask my mother, 'Where's he going?'” Yamamoto recalled. “She said she didn't know. I said, 'When is he coming back?' She didn’t know anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that the U.S. government had pressured Latin American governments to turn over legal residents and even citizens of Japanese, German or Italian ancestry, ostensibly to protect the southern hemisphere from invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792554\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Peruvian men in the Panama Canal Zone heading to detention in the U.S., April 2, 1942. Koshio Henry Shima (2nd from right) was a named plaintiff in a 1996 lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking redress.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Peruvian men in the Panama Canal Zone heading to detention in the U.S., April 2, 1942. Koshio Henry Shima (2nd from right) was a named plaintiff in a 1996 lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking redress. \u003ccite>(National Archives, Courtesy of Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the pretext of national security, U.S. officials transported supposedly dangerous “enemy aliens” to the United States. Ultimately more than 2,200 people of Japanese ancestry from 13 Latin American countries ended up detained in the United States during WWII. Of those, 1800 were from Peru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first learned about this history more than 20 years ago from a family friend in Los Angeles who told me, “The U.S. government kidnapped my family and threw us in a concentration camp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"japanese-internment\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was back before I was a journalist. I helped publicize the \u003ca href=\"https://jlacampaignforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redress efforts\u003c/a> of some of the surviving Japanese Latin Americans who filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a month after her father was taken away, Yamamoto told me her family didn’t know where he was or even if he was alive. Then he managed to send a letter for her sister’s birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had enclosed some pressed flowers,” Yamamoto remembered. “He said, ‘I'm sorry, I can't give you any birthday present, so this will have to do.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wrote that he’d been put to work in a U.S. Army camp in Panama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, authorities told the family that if they wanted to see him again, they would have to agree to be shipped to the United States and reunite with him there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in July 1943, Yamamoto, her mother and two siblings joined other wives and children at the port of Callao to board a U.S. ship. She remembers walking up the gangplank, bringing all that they could carry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so afraid,” Yamamoto said. “We saw the soldiers lined up with guns, and we thought, ‘As soon as we go to high seas, they're going to kill us all!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turned out, the U.S. planned to use detainees like the Yamamoto's family for prisoner exchanges with Japan and other enemy nations. During the war, the U.S. exchanged 900 Japanese Latin Americans for U.S. citizens held by the Japanese, and then after the war, deported another 800 of them to Japan, a place many of them had never seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. consuls in Latin America were under orders not to issue visas to families like Yamamoto's, and on the ship, U.S. soldiers confiscated the passports of any traveler who had one, according to historian C. Harvey Gardiner, who wrote a book about the prisoner exchange program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Yamamoto's family arrived in New Orleans, after a three week journey, she said immigration agents on the dock asked to see their travel documents. When she couldn't present a visa or passport, her mother was told the family had entered the U.S. “illegally,” and they were being sent to detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto remembered seeing customs agents searching bags and even dumping people’s belongings into the water. But she was allowed to keep her prized possession: a doll her father had given her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Libia Yamamoto\"]\"In between sobs, I would ask my mother, 'Where's he going?’ She said she didn't know. I said, 'When is he coming back?' She didn’t know anything.\"[/pullquote] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the 120,000 American citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry in the U.S. who were detained in internment camps run by the War Relocation Authority, the Latin Americans were detained in facilities run by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. They were largely hidden from the public and the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 3,000 Latin Americans of Japanese, German and Italian ancestry passed through the Crystal City \u003ca href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Crystal_City_(detention_facility)/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">internment camp\u003c/a> for families. A 1945 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=crystal+city+texas+internment+camp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">propaganda film\u003c/a> produced by the U.S. Department of Justice shows hundreds of cabins laid out across dirt roads and enclosed in high fences with watch towers for armed guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto was seven when she arrived and would spend the next four years there.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Immigrant Families Detained Today\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In January of this year, I traveled to the same part of Texas to report on a new wave of families in detention: thousands of mothers and children seeking refuge from violence in Central America who were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and placed in a privately-run prison, just 45 miles from Crystal City, in a town called Dilley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the facility opened in 2015, the population has fluctuated from a few hundred people up to 2400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Flood lights illuminate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement family detention facility in Dilley, Texas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flood lights illuminate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement family detention facility in Dilley, Texas. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE denied my requests to visit the South Texas Family Residential Center, so I asked an immigrant advocate who had worked inside it to drive me to the highway entrance. From there at a distance you can see a large tented area, where immigrant rights advocate Katy Murdza believes people are processed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can just see the tops of the light posts,” Murdza observed. “There's flood lighting at night, so people say it's even hard to sleep because it's never truly night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those flood lights are so bright you can see them from a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Crystal City camp was also surrounded by barbed wire fences and flood lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When our buses arrive, all that’s visible on the now barren field is a water tower and the cement base of a reservoir that the detainees converted into a swimming pool to escape the scorching Texas summers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two girls drowned in that pool — one of them was Yamamoto's good friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto and the other pilgrims gather inside the base of the swimming pool for a ceremony to honor the girls and 15 other people who died at the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buddhist minister Ron Kobata of San Francisco asks participants to offer incense and white carnations at an altar for their predecessors, “who endured this experience, but not with just pity and resentment, but with determination, so that their offspring will not have to endure that same tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto and other pilgrims participate in the ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792545\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Latin American Eloy Moaki returns to the site where his family was interned during WWII in Crystal City, Texas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Latin American Eloy Moaki returns to the site where his family was interned during WWII in Crystal City, Texas. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Later, they say that a very similar tragedy is unfolding again — for migrant families coming to the U.S. to seek asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after their visit to Crystal City, they participate in a rally in San Antonio with local immigrant advocates. Yamamoto is invited to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lately when I hear the immigrants getting separated by children and parents, I feel so bad for them!” she tells the crowd of a couple hundred people. She says it brings back the painful memories of her own childhood separation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my father was kidnapped in January of 1943 and we said goodbye to him, not knowing where he was being taken, and when we ever will see him again,” she says. “It was a very traumatic day for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Latin Americans rallied in San Antonio, Texas, to protest the Trump administration's family detention policies.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Latin Americans rallied in San Antonio, Texas, to protest the Trump administration's family detention policies. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Murdza, the advocate who took me to the family detention center in Dilley earlier this year, also speaks at the rally. She works for an organization that provides legal help to families to get them released from detention to await their hearings in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Detention harms the physical health, mental health and legal rights of the families,” she tells the former internees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government calls this facility the South Texas Family Residential Center,” Murdza says. “But those of us who know its effects on the mothers and children detained there know that it's a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Starting Over in the United States\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After about eight months of separation, Yamamoto was finally reunited with her father in Crystal City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the parents learned that the U.S. wanted to deport them to Japan — a place that Yamamoto and her siblings had never been. But the day they were set to sail, Yamamoto’s father became too ill to travel. His health had deteriorated in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full two years after the war ended, the family was still being held at Crystal City. Finally, an attorney with the ACLU of Northern California arranged for their release to an aunt in Berkeley who agreed to sponsor them. Yamamoto remembers taking the train to the now defunct Santa Fe station at Acton Street and University Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A Japanese minister came to pick us up,” she recalled. “He drove up University and all the neon lights were shining. Wow! We were just amazed at all those beautiful lights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto’s parents lost all their property in Peru, and Peruvian officials would not allow the family to return. She says her parents worked menial jobs in California for the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a decade after their release, the government continued to consider them \"illegal aliens” subject to deportation. Then in 1954, a change in U.S. immigration law allowed the family to become legal permanent residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in 1998, Japanese Latin Americans won a historic settlement of $5,000 for each surviving detainee or their family, and a letter of apology signed by President Bill Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many survivors found the offer meager, they thought it was important that the U.S. government officially acknowledged that it had violated their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize the wrongs of the past and offer our profound regret to those who endured such grave injustice,” the letter stated. “We understand that our nation’s actions were rooted in racial prejudice and wartime hysteria.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto says she’s praying that President Trump will soon realize that his policies on immigrant families are wrong and that children are paying the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Libia Yamamoto has a feel for fashion — even as a young girl in a World War II detention camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent trip back to the place where she was imprisoned for four years as a child, Yamamoto showed me a class photo. She was 10 years old at the time, and in the picture she's smiling at the camera, dark hair swept back in a ribbon, sporting a plaid tailored dress with a flared skirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto is now 84. Her hair is white, but still carefully coiffed. On this cold November day she’s bundled up in a long wool coat as she waits to board a chartered bus. I'm joining her as she travels more than 100 miles from San Antonio to Crystal City, Texas, where she was interned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon we’re rolling down the highway into rural South Texas, in a convoy of buses carrying 170 people who all share some connection to the Crystal City Internment Camp. They are making this pilgrimage to draw attention to a little-known injustice of WWII that seems more relevant than ever: They see a repeat of their own history in the large-scale detention of migrant families in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Latin American Libia Yamamoto reunited with others who were interned in Crystal City, Texas, during WWII.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40590_IMG_1605-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Latin American Libia Yamamoto reunited with others who were interned in Crystal City, Texas, during WWII. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto was born in Peru to parents who had immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. The family owned several thriving businesses in the coastal city of Chiclayo and lived a comfortable life on a hacienda with servants and chauffeurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That life unraveled after the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after that attack, police in Peru arrested Yamamoto's father and took him to the local jail. Yamamoto and her mother arrived there the next morning just in time to see police load him onto a truck with other men and drive away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto said her mother, who had kept her composure until then, burst into tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto cried too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In between sobs, I would ask my mother, 'Where's he going?'” Yamamoto recalled. “She said she didn't know. I said, 'When is he coming back?' She didn’t know anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that the U.S. government had pressured Latin American governments to turn over legal residents and even citizens of Japanese, German or Italian ancestry, ostensibly to protect the southern hemisphere from invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792554\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Peruvian men in the Panama Canal Zone heading to detention in the U.S., April 2, 1942. Koshio Henry Shima (2nd from right) was a named plaintiff in a 1996 lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking redress.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40547_6A-P04_cropped-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Peruvian men in the Panama Canal Zone heading to detention in the U.S., April 2, 1942. Koshio Henry Shima (2nd from right) was a named plaintiff in a 1996 lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking redress. \u003ccite>(National Archives, Courtesy of Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the pretext of national security, U.S. officials transported supposedly dangerous “enemy aliens” to the United States. Ultimately more than 2,200 people of Japanese ancestry from 13 Latin American countries ended up detained in the United States during WWII. Of those, 1800 were from Peru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first learned about this history more than 20 years ago from a family friend in Los Angeles who told me, “The U.S. government kidnapped my family and threw us in a concentration camp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A 1945 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=crystal+city+texas+internment+camp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">propaganda film\u003c/a> produced by the U.S. Department of Justice shows hundreds of cabins laid out across dirt roads and enclosed in high fences with watch towers for armed guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto was seven when she arrived and would spend the next four years there.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Immigrant Families Detained Today\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In January of this year, I traveled to the same part of Texas to report on a new wave of families in detention: thousands of mothers and children seeking refuge from violence in Central America who were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and placed in a privately-run prison, just 45 miles from Crystal City, in a town called Dilley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the facility opened in 2015, the population has fluctuated from a few hundred people up to 2400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Flood lights illuminate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement family detention facility in Dilley, Texas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/Flood-Lights-at-ICE-family-detention-facility-Dilley-Tx-RS37048_IMG_8923-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flood lights illuminate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement family detention facility in Dilley, Texas. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE denied my requests to visit the South Texas Family Residential Center, so I asked an immigrant advocate who had worked inside it to drive me to the highway entrance. From there at a distance you can see a large tented area, where immigrant rights advocate Katy Murdza believes people are processed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can just see the tops of the light posts,” Murdza observed. “There's flood lighting at night, so people say it's even hard to sleep because it's never truly night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those flood lights are so bright you can see them from a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Crystal City camp was also surrounded by barbed wire fences and flood lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When our buses arrive, all that’s visible on the now barren field is a water tower and the cement base of a reservoir that the detainees converted into a swimming pool to escape the scorching Texas summers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two girls drowned in that pool — one of them was Yamamoto's good friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto and the other pilgrims gather inside the base of the swimming pool for a ceremony to honor the girls and 15 other people who died at the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buddhist minister Ron Kobata of San Francisco asks participants to offer incense and white carnations at an altar for their predecessors, “who endured this experience, but not with just pity and resentment, but with determination, so that their offspring will not have to endure that same tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto and other pilgrims participate in the ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792545\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Latin American Eloy Moaki returns to the site where his family was interned during WWII in Crystal City, Texas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40586_IMG_1689-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Latin American Eloy Moaki returns to the site where his family was interned during WWII in Crystal City, Texas. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Later, they say that a very similar tragedy is unfolding again — for migrant families coming to the U.S. to seek asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after their visit to Crystal City, they participate in a rally in San Antonio with local immigrant advocates. Yamamoto is invited to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lately when I hear the immigrants getting separated by children and parents, I feel so bad for them!” she tells the crowd of a couple hundred people. She says it brings back the painful memories of her own childhood separation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my father was kidnapped in January of 1943 and we said goodbye to him, not knowing where he was being taken, and when we ever will see him again,” she says. “It was a very traumatic day for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11792555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Latin Americans rallied in San Antonio, Texas, to protest the Trump administration's family detention policies.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40582_IMG_1781-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Latin Americans rallied in San Antonio, Texas, to protest the Trump administration's family detention policies. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Murdza, the advocate who took me to the family detention center in Dilley earlier this year, also speaks at the rally. She works for an organization that provides legal help to families to get them released from detention to await their hearings in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Detention harms the physical health, mental health and legal rights of the families,” she tells the former internees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government calls this facility the South Texas Family Residential Center,” Murdza says. “But those of us who know its effects on the mothers and children detained there know that it's a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Starting Over in the United States\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After about eight months of separation, Yamamoto was finally reunited with her father in Crystal City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the parents learned that the U.S. wanted to deport them to Japan — a place that Yamamoto and her siblings had never been. But the day they were set to sail, Yamamoto’s father became too ill to travel. His health had deteriorated in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full two years after the war ended, the family was still being held at Crystal City. Finally, an attorney with the ACLU of Northern California arranged for their release to an aunt in Berkeley who agreed to sponsor them. Yamamoto remembers taking the train to the now defunct Santa Fe station at Acton Street and University Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A Japanese minister came to pick us up,” she recalled. “He drove up University and all the neon lights were shining. Wow! We were just amazed at all those beautiful lights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto’s parents lost all their property in Peru, and Peruvian officials would not allow the family to return. She says her parents worked menial jobs in California for the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a decade after their release, the government continued to consider them \"illegal aliens” subject to deportation. Then in 1954, a change in U.S. immigration law allowed the family to become legal permanent residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in 1998, Japanese Latin Americans won a historic settlement of $5,000 for each surviving detainee or their family, and a letter of apology signed by President Bill Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many survivors found the offer meager, they thought it was important that the U.S. government officially acknowledged that it had violated their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize the wrongs of the past and offer our profound regret to those who endured such grave injustice,” the letter stated. “We understand that our nation’s actions were rooted in racial prejudice and wartime hysteria.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto says she’s praying that President Trump will soon realize that his policies on immigrant families are wrong and that children are paying the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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