'At this point we're just waiting to be next because the virus is passed so easily,' one detainee told BuzzFeed News.
Oswaldo, an asylum-seeker from El Salvador detained at an ICE facility in California who has asthma, fears what will happen if he contracts theThe anxious 28-year-old is scared that as an immigrant in US custody, he won't be a priority and worries it will be COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, that ultimately kills him instead of the violence he tried to flee.
Oswaldo said that in addition to being worried about catching COVID-19 from a fellow detainee, he was concerned about guards who interact with immigrants because they move throughout the detention center and could unknowingly bring the virus from outside. Oswaldo said he was one of 12 people in his unit who have participated in hunger strikes in recent weeks to protest their detention during the coronavirus pandemic. Oswaldo said they would take the food from guards but refuse to eat it. If they don't take the food, they’re threatened with solitary confinement, he said.
Heber, a 33-year-old detainee at Otay Mesa from El Salvador, said he has a heart arrhythmia. The asylum-seeker said there are other people at the facility with ailments such as tuberculosis and asthma who could suffer complications from COVID-19.Heber was sent to the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Feb. 14, and then about a month later was taken to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County a few hours away with about 38 other men.
Aldo Jovani Camacho Lopez, a Mexican man detained at Pike County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, tested positive for COVID-19 on April 2. There have been five confirmed cases of the virus at the detention center. The facility provided him with Gatorade and multivitamins for treatment after his positive test, according to a lawsuit requesting his release. His cellmate also tested positive for the disease, according to court documents.
Fnu Mansyur, a 42-year-old Indonesian man and former detainee who was released in recent weeks from Pike, said that up until late March, staffers at the facility were not wearing masks and gloves. “What is happening here is inevitable,” said Marc Stern, a public health expert and faculty member at the University of Washington. “None of this is a surprise. Once there is an appreciable level of infection inside, depending on how quickly they isolated people and took steps, anybody would’ve feared a spread pretty quickly.”Inmates stand in their maximum security cells at Pike County Correctional Facility in Lords Valley, Pennsylvania.
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