“Crowded detention facilities are ideal incubators for disease, threatening the health not just of the detained, but of surrounding communities. To safeguard public health, nonviolent detainees should be released and allowed to self-isolate.
“Many of those who become sick will likely be treated by doctors who are themselves immigrants. This speaks to the importance of a having system that allows immigrants to enter positions like the health workforce through a network of opportunity that starts with their entry into the U.S. and remains in place as their lives here unfold.”