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'There was blood:' Fights break out at Miami detention center over coronavirus fears
Immigration detainees at the Krome detention center in Miami-Dade are so terrified of catching the coronavirus from new incoming inmates that fistfights erupted among migrants in detention and staff twice this week, leaving guards and detainees bloodied and inmates with black eyes in solitary confinement.
“There were fist fights. There was blood,” one detainee told the Miami Herald. “It was so vicious that the lieutenant was yelling and crying over the radio.”
The fear that the influx of newcomers would bring COVID-19 with them — while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement refuses to test detainees for the illness — sparked two violent fights Tuesday night, when current inmates refused to let incoming inmates through the front doors of their crowded dormitories.
The Miami Herald spoke to two high-level security officials, 15 immigration lawyers and 58 detainees at Krome, who confirmed the “chaotic disturbances.” in two separate detention units....
“There were fist fights. There was blood,” one detainee told the Miami Herald. “It was so vicious that the lieutenant was yelling and crying over the radio.”
The fear that the influx of newcomers would bring COVID-19 with them — while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement refuses to test detainees for the illness — sparked two violent fights Tuesday night, when current inmates refused to let incoming inmates through the front doors of their crowded dormitories.
The Miami Herald spoke to two high-level security officials, 15 immigration lawyers and 58 detainees at Krome, who confirmed the “chaotic disturbances.” in two separate detention units....
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article241891946.html
