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Thousands of immigrants quarantined after being exposed to contagious viral diseases

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have quarantined more than 5,000 immigrant adults who were potentially exposed to contagio...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have quarantined more than 5,000 immigrant adults who were potentially exposed to contagious viral diseases at immigrant detention centers.

Immigrant adults at 39 detention centers nationwide were ordered under quarantine after being exposed to mumps and chicken pox, CNN reported.

The majority of the immigrants, 4,276, were exposed to mumps while 825 immigrants were exposed to chicken pox. Just 99 immigrants were exposed to both diseases, which are easily prevented with vaccines.

"I think there is heightened interest in this situation because it's the mumps, which is a new occurrence in custody, but preventing the spread of communicable disease in ICE custody is something we have demonstrated success doing," Nathalie Asher, ICE executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations, told CNN.

"From an operational perspective, the impact is significant in the short and long term and will result in an increase in cohorted detainees' length of stay in detention, an inability to effect removal of eligible cohorted detainees, and postponing scheduled consular interviews for quarantined detainees," she explained.

ICE will quarantine each person for 25 days from the last incubation period.

Currently, ICE holds more than 50,000 single adult immigrants in detention. While so many have been quarantined due to exposure to the viral diseases, not every immigrant has actually contracted a disease.

The exact number of those with confirmed cases of mumps or chicken pox was not released. However, as CNN reported, ICE confirmed only 297 cases of mumps via blood test from September 2018 to June 13.

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  1. They are INVADERS,not "migrants"
    "Your" Dept of Treasury and DOJ spend all their time protecting ........ Trump's Tax Returns, NOT YOUR FAMILY.
    https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/department-of-justice-backs-treasury-secretary-mnuchins-refusal-to-release-trumps-tax-returns-to-congress/
    Department Of Justice Backs Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s Refusal To Release Trump’s Tax Returns To Congress.
    BULL SHIT --- Either SEAL our borders or release President Huff-N-Puff's taxes.
    "FUNNY" how every Trump move to seal the border is stopped by the courts" and he just can't SEEM to find any lawyers to shove the traitors aside, file appeals & injunctions. .... but he sure has lawyers that can block access to his TAXES at every turn.
    WOW .... even the DOJ can protect his tax returns better than it protects YOUR FAMILY.
    The DOJ does not CARE about Your Family.
    Why are WE paying incompetent losers in the DOJ? Any first year law student should be able to shut down this GARBAGE . The "DOJ" should have ended the sanctuary crap on day one. File the first criminal AND civil lawsuits, freeze the assets of of the "sanctuarians" and the rest would change their tune. Forfeit ALL of Gov. Newsom's assets to pay damages to the family of that murdered woman ....and jail him as an ACCESSORY and an ACCOMPLICE.
    ....... If the "Appointed Defenders" of Our HOUSE refuse to do their duty, they are accomplices and personally responsible for the results. "Public Officials" That refuse to enforce the immigration laws and provide "sanctuary" to ILLEGALS automatically assume personal financial responsibility for ANY crimes and any damages created by said ILLEGALS. They also are accessories to any crimes committed by their ILLEGALS and should be JAILED as Accomplices. Same applies to any priest/church that provides "sanctuary" Take all their assets for reparations and jail them as accomplices to the crimes .
    FIRE all the TURDS in the DOJ for "Practicing Law without a BRAIN".

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