ICE Backtracks on Reducing Enforcement Actions During Coronavirus Outbreak. Advocates Still Demand Immigrant Detainees in ICE Custody are Released

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced this week that it would temporarily halt most of its arrests due to the coronavirus pandemic, but backtracked on this statement the following day.

On March 19, Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, wrote on Twitter that the agency will continue to arrest and detai…