A federal judge in New York ordered the release Thursday of 10 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees from correctional facilities in New Jersey to protect them from coronavirus.

The 10 inmates all suffer from “chronic medical conditions” and face an “imminent risk of death or serious injury in immigration detention if exposed to COVID-19,” United States District Court Judge Analisa Torres wrote in her decision.

Torres granted the ten men a temporary restraining order releasing them on their own recognizance “subject to reasonable and appropriate conditions."

The judge’s order also stopped Thomas Decker, director of ICE’s New York Field Office, and Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the U.S. Department Homeland Security, from arresting the men for civil immigration detention purposes during their immigration hearings.

The restraining order will expire on April 9 at 6:30 p.m. and Wolf and Decker have until April 2 to explain why it should not be converted to a preliminary injunction, Torres’ decision said.

An ICE spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday evening.

Three of the inmates were being held at Hudson County jail. Five were being held at Bergen County jail.

And the remaining two were being held at the Essex County jail.

The 10 detainees were represented by Brooklyn Defender Services, which began petitioning for the release of the inmates on March 16.

Some of the inmates’ underlying conditions cited in the judge’s decision included asthma, severe heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

In a similar effort, two New York legal groups, The Legal Aid Society and The Bronx Defenders, also filed action recently to free seven ICE detainees in New Jersey and New York jails who are at “imminent risk” of COVID-19 because of their age or underlying health conditions.

And in an unrelated case, an ICE detainee at the Bergen County jail who tested positive for the coronavirus was freed from the facility Thursday. The 31-year-old was the country’s first federal immigration detainee to test positive, according to Emilio Dabul, spokesman for ICE in New Jersey.

Last week, a sheriff’s corrections officer who works at the jail also tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting seven other corrections officers who had contact with him to self-quarantine. The corrections officer self-quarantined at home for 14 days.

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