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Podcast: The Bay
Episode: COVID-19 Has Made ICE Detention Centers Even More Dangerous
Description: A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered a privately-run immigrant detention center in Bakersfield to stop transferring people to the facility and to provide weekly COVID-19 tests to those inside. Now more than a dozen people detained at the Mesa Verde facility have COVID-19. Meanwhile, calls to get people out of immigration detention centers are overlapping with calls to abolish prisons amid a nationwide movement for racial justice.Guest: Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED immigration reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices