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Detained immigrants plead for masks, protection from virus
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HOUSTON – Elsy was on the phone in an immigration detention center when guards showed up with face masks and forms to sign.
The asylum-seeker from El Salvador and others had resorted to tearing their T-shirts into face coverings after a woman in their unit tested positive for COVID-19.
But the guards would not give out the masks until the detainees signed the forms, which said they could not hold the private prison company running the detention center in San Diego liable if they got the coronavirus, according to Elsy and two other detainees, including one who read the form to The Associated Press over the phone.
When they refused Friday, the guards took away the masks, said Elsy, who spoke on condition that her last name be withheld for
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