A U.S. Border Patrol truck enters the Port Isabel Detention Center near Los Fresnos, Texas,, which holds detainees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on June 26, 2018. Photo: David J. Phillip/AP
Immigration attorneys are sounding the alarm about their detained clients, who must still attend immigration court hearings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and face heightened infection risks in detention.
The U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review has postponed non-detained hearings nationwide, and closed nine immigration courts in Georgia, Texas, New York, California and other states that solely hear those cases of immigrants out of detention. But other immigration courts around the country that handle the hearings for detained immigrants are still open.
