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At least two people detained at a Texas immigration detention center for families and children have tested positive for measles. Department of Homeland Security officials have said they are implementing a quarantine in an effort to limit the disease’s spread. Separately, a person held at an ICE facility in Arizona also confirmed positive for measles last week.

These cases bring together President Trump’s aggressive deportation efforts and a rise in cases of measles, a disease declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.

ICE detentions have increased by more than 50% since President Trump took office, in facilities that were already crowded with people not getting adequate healthcare. The number of children held by ICE has skyrocketed during Trump’s second term, to an average of 170 a day compared with around 25 a day during the last 16 months of the Biden Administration, according to the Marshall Project, which analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project.

Meanwhile, measles—one of the most contagious known diseases—has been spreading quickly, with cases rising in 17 states, Arizona among them. (An early 2025 outbreak in Texas, which led to two children’s deaths, has since subsided.) In January alone, the number of new cases accounted for 26% of 2025’s total as antivaccination sentiment has........

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