The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court injunction on Tuesday against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requiring safer conditions to protect detained immigrants from COVID-19. The Ninth Circuit held that the district court is permitted to offer injunctive relief “to remedy unconstitutional conditions of confinement.”
The court stated that it was proper to certify a class of all of the detainees at Adelanto, a holding facility, because “the alleged due process violations exposed all Adelanto detainees to an unnecessary risk of harm” and a preliminary injunction protected them all.
