(The Center Square) – A federal judge extended a temporary restraining order Wednesday in a case involving the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its plans to release a tuberculosis-positive Chinese migrant into the U.S. without clearance from the state Health Department.
U.S. District Judge David Joseph issued an order that says the restraining order applies only to 211 detainees quarantined by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency at the private Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, and the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile.
Joseph said in the order the preliminary injunction hearing scheduled for Thursday will be postponed until Nov. 13 in Lafayette and the restraining order will extend until that hearing.
The order says the detainees who entered the country illegally will be screened by the Louisiana Department of Health before they can be released, but it doesn’t prevent ICE from moving a detainee out of state or out of the country providing the detainee is subjected to monitoring, testing and results are provided to the state health department for its investigation.