Mumps, other outbreaks force U.S. detention centers to quarantine over 2,000 migrants MARCH 10, 2019 via Reuters
04/29/2019 09:57
Mumps, other outbreaks force U.S. detention centers to quarantine over 2,000 migrants
Micah Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke
(Reuters) - Christian Mejia thought he had a shot at getting out of immigration detention in rural Louisiana after he found a lawyer to help him seek asylum.
Then he was quarantined.
In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately run Pine Prairie U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center put Mejia and hundreds of other detainees on lockdown. “When there is just one person who is sick, everybody pays,” Mejia, 19, said in a phone interview from the Pine Prairie center describing weeks without visits and access to the library and dining hall.
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