Immigrant rights advocates say there are signs that fears of coronavirus contagion are intensifying for the more than 26,000 detainees in ICE custody and the guards charged with protecting them — and that tensions are boiling over.
Inside the ICE detention wing, the signs of clashes lingered hours after violence erupted and pepper spray was fired.
Mattresses had been flung onto the floor. Detainees' belongings were strewn across the room. A message that appeared to be scrawled in soap on a window simply said:"HELP US."Weeks later, officials and lawyers representing detainees at the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center in Bristol County, Massachusetts, are still painting a starkly different picture of what unfolded that day. But they agree on one thing: The May 1 brawl began with a dispute over coronavirus testing.
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