ICE makes vaccines available to those held at Batavia facility
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Protesters lined up outside the Rensselaer County jail Thursday morning to rail against the appearance of Matthew T. Albence, the acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.Paul Buckowski / Times Union
BATAVIA After nearly two months of litigation, 58 immigrants detained at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility have received a COVID-19 vaccine.
The first shots in immigrants’ arms were administered at a nearby state-run vaccination site on March 23, with eight medically vulnerable immigrants getting their first dose of the vaccine. They appeared to be the first immigrants in the nation held at ICE-run facilities to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Maureen Regan Moriarty held a photo of her father, John Regan, while sitting in her living room.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
John Stote was serving a mandatory life sentence for the 1995 murder of a Springfield restaurant owner when he was released in January on medical parole. At the time, the 61-year-old was hospitalized with COVID-19 and on a ventilator. The stateâs top correctional official determined it was unlikely he would survive.
A federal judge in New York state has ordered officials to come up with a plan to vaccine detained immigrants, but for the rest of the nation, questions remain.
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ICE has no clear plan to vaccinate thousands of detainees
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March 12, 2021
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In this photo, a staff member works in the infirmary, a series of tents, at the U.S. government s newest holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas. At least 370 detainees at ICE detention centers are currently positive with covid-19, according to agency records. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Eric Gay/Associated Press
The coronavirus has been running rampant for months through Immigration and Customs Enforcement s network of jails holding civil immigration detainees fighting deportation - but the agency has no vaccination program and, unlike the Bureau of Prisons, is relying on state and local health departments to procure vaccine doses. Nobody can say how many detainees have been vaccinated.