GUATEMALA CITY – The Trump administration’s failure to test all but a small percentage of detained immigrants for the novel coronavirus may be helping it spread through the United States’ sprawling system of detention centers and then to Central America and elsewhere aboard regular deportation flights, migrants' advocates said Friday.
Just 400 detainees out of more than 32,000 have been tested so far, according to testimony that Matthew Albence, the acting director of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, gave Friday to a congressional committee. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform said that Albence “also confirmed that ICE does not routinely test detainees before deporting them.” More than 1,600 people deported from the United