{"id":2447,"date":"2022-02-14T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:25:23","slug":"aumento-de-casos-de-covid-19-en-carceles-del-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/aumento-de-casos-de-covid-19-en-carceles-del-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in Covid-19 cases in ICE jails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Covid-19 infections has skyrocketed since November in immigrant detention centers due to the Omicron variant, worrying activists and organizations that defend immigrants&#039; rights.&nbsp;<br>According to Univision, the American Immigration Lawyers Association stated that cases have been detected at 10,00% since the beginning of the year, and according to the detention center, about 14.5 % of detainees were detained as of January 27, which is why Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, sent a letter mentioning the risks of infection because detainees in ICE jails are not adequately protected against the spread of COVID-19.<br>Stay up-to-date on immigration with our YouTube channel&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/8663097189907441572\/6867454440337711660#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AsisVisa Immigration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Increase in Covid-19 cases in ICE prisons\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uvSqX1e0JKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Covid-19 infections has surged since November in immigrant detention centers due to the Omicron variant, worrying activists and immigrant rights organizations. According to Univision, the American Immigration Lawyers Association stated that cases have been detected in\u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/aumento-de-casos-de-covid-19-en-carceles-del-ice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00ab&quot;Increase in Covid-19 cases in ICE prisons&quot;\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asisvisa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}