‘A Public Health Emergency’: Doctors Sound Alarm on Measles Outbreak at Texas ICE Center
As the sole legal aid provider regularly operating onsite at the Dilley facility, RAICES has raised urgent alarms regarding the systemic health risks inherent in family detention. Co-CEO Faisal Al-Juburi asserts that communicable disease outbreaks, such as a potential measles outbreak, are a recurring feature of immigration detention policy rather than isolated incidents. The organization emphasizes that prolonged detention and severely lacking medical care inflict irreparable harm on vulnerable children and families. By documenting these abysmal conditions and providing legal advocacy, RAICES continues to challenge the criminalization of asylum-seekers and the hazardous environment fostered by the current incarceration framework.
