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ICE & Covid

A Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday that a federal judge’s order to reduce overcrowding at two immigration detention facilities in California this past April was justified given the growing and grave risks of Covid-19.

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2019, file photo, a detainee talks on the phone in his pod at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. While much of daily life has ground to a halt to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, the Trump administration is resisting calls from immigration judges and attorneys to stop in-person hearings and shutter all immigration courts. They say the most pressing hearings can still be done by phone so immigrants aren't stuck in detention indefinitely. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday that a federal judge’s order to reduce overcrowding at two immigration detention facilities in California this past April was justified given the growing and grave risks of Covid-19.

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