'We're both devastated by this news but also very angry,' RAICES has said.
Immigration advocates have renewed calls for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to release detained immigrants amid the coronavirus outbreak after a father kept at a family detention center in Texas killed himself on Wednesday.
"We're both devastated by this news but also very angry," the organization said, with the suicide marking the ninth death in ICE custody in the 2020 fiscal year. A number of detainees, the organization continued,"have told us how frightened they are to be locked in detention as the coronavirus spreads throughout the country."
Instead of being forced to stay in detention facilities while their immigration cases are processed, immigration advocates have recommended that most detainees be allowed to stay with family members or at other accommodations across the country.
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