Lawmakers, immigrant rights advocates question California s plan to vaccinate ICE detainees
By Lisa Fernandez article
FILE ART -A federal agent arrests a man in Daly City on Sept. 28, 2020 as part of a sanctuary city operation. Courtesy: ICE
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of immigrant rights advocates and nearly 20 lawmakers are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom what California s plan is to vaccinate those detained in federal immigration detention facilities.
The groups said they have heard conflicting reports about who is ultimately responsible for the vaccination of the 1,200 ICE detainees in California: The federal government or the state? This is extremely frustrating for us, Hamid Yazdan Panah, advocacy director for the Immigrant Defense Advocates, said on Tuesday. To pretend these people don t exist in your state and to continually pass the buck is extremely disturbing.
The groups said they have heard conflicting reports about who is ultimately responsible for the vaccination of the 1,200 ICE detainees in the state: The federal government or the state?
By Marielena Castellanos
After a firestorm of criticism, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end the policy forcing the separation of children from their parents when entering the United States border without proper documentation.
The executive order does not end the zero tolerance policy, which means anyone caught entering the U.S. illegally will still be criminally prosecuted.
Despite this, the fear that families may not be reunited remains as well as confusion on how the reunification process between parents and their children will work and when it will begin. There is no established system to return children to their parents, and both are separated into completely different federal departments.
been protesting outside of the otay mesa detention facility where we know for sure, richard, there are mothers separated from the kids in there and can you tell me the significance of that? well, like a lot of people, i thought that i would go to detention center and i d see people and chaos and i d see people through the window, and i would have some connection to the people that are being detained. otay mesa is the equivalent to the about eight football fields, and if you didn t know what it was, it is looking like a storage facility. no windows and the barbed wire is way up over the roof, and it is on a private road outside of san diego with a big sign. it is a private corporation that is rent iing to the government. and you saw is nothing. as i said to other fellow protesters, only god can see what is inside of here. so we were chanting, and there are about 300 of us out of