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Collected Item: “Coronavirus Suit Filed Against ICE and Bristol County Sheriff”

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Coronavirus Suit Filed Against ICE

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PDF of website

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Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a class-action lawsuit alleging life-threatening and inhumane conditions in detention centers. They cited guards with symptoms, a lack of sanitizer, disinfectant, toilet paper, and no social distancing as problems being ignored as ICE continued to detain people even while COVID was spreading like wildfire.

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Greater Boston, Immigrant Rights, Racial Justice, ICE, detention centers, lawyers

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http://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/immigrant-rights/coronavirus-suit-filed-against-ice-and-bristol-county-sheriff/

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Lawyers for Civil Rights

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2020-03-27
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