More than 2,000 detainees at immigration detention facilities across the country have been quarantined because of outbreaks of mumps and other contagious diseases.
In a statement to Newsweek, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency spokesperson Brendan Raedy confirmed that as of March 7, there were a total of 2,287 detainees "cohorted for exposure to a detainee with a contagious condition," including mumps.
Raedy did not respond to a question from Newsweek on how many, if any, of those detainees had actually contracted mumps or another contagious disease before they were cohorted.
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