'ICE has failed in its duty to protect': Judge orders detainees' release from Florida facilities

A federal judge has ordered federal immigration officials to free hundreds of people detained at three Florida facilities, ruling “there is record evidence demonstrating that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has failed in its duty to protect the safety and general well-being of the petitioners,” and that social distancing while in detention “is not only practically impossible, the conditions are becoming worse every day,” Miami Herald reports. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/5/1/1941914/--ICE-has-failed-in-its-duty-to-protect-Judge-orders-detainees-release-from-Florida-facilities