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The judges, who work for the executive branch, have been instructed to grant dismissals quickly; ICE has been arresting people after their cases are dismissed.

Many of the people arrested at appointments had been released under a program for those deemed not to be threats to public safety.

Yunqing Jian, a researcher at the University of Michigan, and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, studied the pathogen as university students in China.