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Gov. Greg Abbott s calls to increase ICE detention facilities are facing pushback.
Some Valley residents started a letter-writing campaign to U.S. Rep Filemon Vela (D-Brownsville). They want all ICE detainees to be released due to COVID-19 risks.
In 2020, 33-year-old Hilder Lainez-Alvarez said he was caught illegally crossing the border and was put in ICE custody.
Having severe asthma, Lainez-Alvarez caught the coronavirus while inside the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville. I [did] 30 days alone in the room, Lainez-Alvarez said. No nothing.
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Last year, when 33-year-old Hilder Lainez-Alvarez was arrested after crossing the border illegally, he was taken to the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, then the ICE Detention Center in Port Isabel.
The Nicaraguan native said that both detention centers were overcrowded, and that he contracted COVID-19 at the El Valle Detention Center.
Lainez-Alvarez says since he has severe asthma, he still hasn’t fully recovered.
“It s a lot of people there,” said Lainez-Alvarez. “It s a lot of people there, and they suffer. It s a lot of people there that got trauma; they got families outside.
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