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Immigrant rights group and Microsoft workers blast ICE raids amid coronavirus crisis: 'The way ICE is operating is reckless'

and taken to a facility where 10 people were under quarantine.

Mijente has been campaigning to convince major tech companies, including Microsoft, Amazon and Palantir, not to share their technologies with ICE, saying these tools have been used to hunt down undocumented immigrants. Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft could not immediately be reached for comment.But Mijente's call for an end to raids against undocumented immigrants got the support of a group of Microsoft workers.said in a statement.

"Consistent with its sensitive locations policy, during the COVID-19 crisis, ICE will not carry out enforcement operations at or near health care facilities, such as hospitals, doctors' offices, accredited health clinics, and emergent or urgent care facilities, except in the most extraordinary of circumstances," ICE said in a statement. "Individuals should not avoid seeking medical care because they fear civil immigration enforcement.

Undocumented immigrants who are detained could face serious health risks as the coronavirus continues to spread, she said.

 

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Castillo, the ”56-year-old man in Los Angeles” was not arrested ”as he was buying food for his family”, and the unnamed ”man [] arrested in Pennsylvania as he was leaving a hospital emergency room” was convicted of feloniously reentering the U.S. and had not yet been sentenced.

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