...Advocates also are petitioning for the release of 16 medically vulnerable people being held in six Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in Louisiana, citing “their severe risk of contracting coronavirus and developing life-threatening COVID-19 symptoms.” They were part of a petition filed last week on behalf of people in ICE detention in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana that was dismissed on technical jurisdictional grounds, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, the groups pressing their cases.  ...

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