COVID-19 and ICE Raids

December 10, 2020

This illustration shows people in masks looking in various directions. The group of people take up the whole image and seem to fit together like puzzle pieces.
In a new 
Public Health Post article, ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine affiliates Seth Holmes and Miriam Magaña Lopez explore the dangers in how ICE has continued to raid, detain, and deport immigrants nationwide amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. "Trust is broken when governments order everyone to avoid non-essential activities while simultaneously continuing to raid immigrant and communities of color, separate families, and detain and deport individuals." Raids have forced groups of people into conditions that risk their safety and threaten to spread the virus. "We must follow public health recommendations by stopping ICE raids, detentions, and deportations."