Texas ICE detention center under quarantine after measles outbreak
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Camp East Montana, the ICE immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, is under quarantine following a measles outbreak.
EL PASO, TX — A large immigration detention center in West Texas is under quarantine and has been closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak, multiple sources told the El Paso Times, part of the USA TODAY Network.
The quarantine of the sprawling facility follows multiple confirmed cases of measles and at least two cases of tuberculosis at Camp East Montana, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in East El Paso near the U.S.-Mexico border. The detention center is located on Fort Bliss property.
In a statement on Tuesday, March 3, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said there are currently 14 active cases of measles inside the facility, and 112 people are being isolated. The detention center will remain closed to visitors and attorneys until March 19 or March 20, according to Escobar, a Democrat whose El Paso district includes the facility.
"While on one hand, it is a good thing that the measles outbreak is being taken seriously, on the other hand, I am alarmed that a preventable crisis has created conditions where detainees can only access their lawyers virtually," Escobar said in the statement. "There has been nothing but crisis after crisis inside the walls of this tent city."
Crystal Sandoval, a legal representative with the immigration rights group Las Americas, is one of those who was told she was unable to go and meet with a potential client due to the spread of infectious diseases at the detention center. Sandoval claimed that cases of measles have been spreading in Camp East Montana for the last three weeks.
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