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Ashoka Mukpo

Staff Reporter at ACLU National

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Ashoka Mukpo is a Staff Reporter at ACLU National.

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Two children wearing face masks standing in front of an immigration detention center holding signs that read: "I want my dad free and healthy" and "I want my dad alive not dead."
  • Immigrants' Rights

"They Don’t Care if You Die": Immigrants in ICE Detention Fear the Spread of COVID-19

Mario Rodas, Sr. first found out there was a deadly virus spreading through the country while he was watching television at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility in Massachusetts. In early March, Rodas had been pulled over and arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while driving to the supermarket with his wife, a legal resident and the mother of his three U.S. citizen children. Since then, he’d been in the custody of ICE, mostly at Plymouth.