On March 27, 2020, Maria Alejandra Celimen Savino and Julio Cesar Medeiros Neves, two immigrants detained at Bristol County House of Corrections, filed suit on behalf of themselves and a proposed class of all other persons held by ICE at Bristol. The suit seeks the emergency release of each member of the class and a ban on any new ICE admissions to the jail. They Petitioners are represented by the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and Lawyers for Civil Rights.