Judge tells ICE to explain by Tuesday why it isn’t testing immigration detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in SeaTac. The ACLU and Northwest Immigration Rights Project argue that medically vulnerable immigration detainees should be released. ICE argues there have been no COVID-19 cases, but acknowledged it has tested just 16 of 645 detainees at the facility.
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