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"content": "\u003cp>Last October, Osny Kidd was arrested outside his Los Angeles apartment and taken to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Adelanto, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was in handcuffs from feet to waist to arms. I arrived there in chains,\" Kidd says. Over 76 days, he says, he was strip searched, subject to filthy conditions, denied medications, and briefly placed in solitary confinement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treatment and conditions Kidd describes raise questions of whether the detention facility violated ICE's detention standards, based on a review of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-standards/2011\">ICE manual\u003c/a> that details those standards. The contractor ICE hired to inspect its facilities found no problems at Adelanto in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/facilityInspections/adelantoEastCa_CL_10_11_2018.pdf\">recent years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762117\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762117\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osny Kidd says he was strip searched, denied medications, and briefly placed in solitary confinement at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. \u003ccite>(Family photo courtesy of Chance Kidd)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That contractor, a private firm called the Nakamoto Group, has become a lightning rod for criticism. The Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General has repeatedly criticized the company for cutting corners on its investigations, conducting improper interviews, and producing \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2018-06/OIG-18-67-Jun18.pdf\">inaccurate reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one instance, the government watchdog said \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/Mga/2018/oig-18-86-sep18.pdf\">ICE failed to take seriously the problem of braided bed sheets\u003c/a> hanging in detainee cells. It said similar braided sheets had been used as a noose in one suicide and in several other attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many critics, Nakamoto's failures cited in the government reports help explain why unsanitary, harsh conditions at the detention centers persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/02/738179391/dhs-inspector-general-finds-dangerous-overcrowding-in-border-patrol-facilities\">Public scrutiny of detention \u003c/a>facilities continues to increase. Meanwhile, the population of those detained at ICE's facilities last month reached an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-management\">all-time high of 54,000\u003c/a>. At the same time, there are persistent questions from the inspector general about whether ICE is properly overseeing the contractors that run a majority of the agency's facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/736940431/under-siege-and-largely-secret-businesses-that-serve-immigration-detention\">ICE relies heavily on private industry\u003c/a> in nearly every aspect of its operation. Outside contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic operate most of ICE's adult detention centers. For the last eight years, Nakamoto has been charged with conducting annual inspections of ICE detention centers, including those run by GEO and CoreCivic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really not an exaggeration to say that there is basically no meaningful accountability or oversight for the companies who are involved,\" says Heidi Altman, director of policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center, an immigrant rights group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS inspector general not only \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2018-06/OIG-18-67-Jun18.pdf\">criticized Nakamoto's work\u003c/a>, it also faulted ICE for not properly overseeing Nakamoto. \"ICE does not adequately hold detention facility contractors accountable for not meeting performance standards,\" the inspector general wrote in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2019-02/OIG-19-18-Jan19.pdf\">latest report in January\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result, critics say, is that detainees are subject to everything from solitary confinement to negligent medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidd, the 24-year-old former Adelanto detainee, says he filed grievances about his experiences. (Kidd married in December; prior to that his last name was Sorto.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidd's Honduran mother brought him to the U.S. when he was 9. He was supposed to be protected from deportation under DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, but ICE agents arrested him outside his apartment because of a DUI charge that was later expunged from his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidd says the treatment at Adelanto was inhumane. One day, during an evacuation, he says a guard screamed obscenities, calling him and his fellow detainees names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, that's when I kind of lost it,\" Kidd says. \"I just said, 'You cannot call me that, you cannot treat us like animals, because we're not.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this, Kidd says he was briefly taken to a solitary confinement room called \"Bravo.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Bravo, there was nobody watching in there,\" Kidd says. \"You'd see people come out of there with bruises. I saw them come out of there with bruises.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidd filed grievances under ICE procedures with GEO Group, which ran the facility. He says GEO promised to interview his fellow detainees about the mistreatment, but never did. He says GEO dismissed his complaint. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11736531,news_11728992' label='Coverage of Immigration Detention From KQED']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to requests seeking comment about Kidd's claims. GEO referred questions regarding the case to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidd's attorney, Sabrina Damast, says such treatment and conditions should have alarmed inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nakamoto inspectors reported no problems at Adelanto in 2017 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/facilityInspections/adelantoEastCa_CL_10_11_2018.pdf\">2018\u003c/a>. For the last eight years, the company has held the contract to inspect conditions at more than 100 ICE facilities, including Adelanto. (Nakamoto inspections from previous years have not been made public.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time ICE's own Office of Detention Oversight reviewed Adelanto was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/odo-compliance-inspections/2014AdelantoJuly.pdf\">in 2014\u003c/a>. That year, ICE's internal review found the facility already fell short in six areas, including how it addressed sexual assault, its handling of detainee grievances and its food service. (Earlier this year, NPR sued the City of Adelanto seeking access to documents regarding conditions at that facility.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE declined an interview. But its spokeswoman Danielle Bennett says the agency \u003cem>has \u003c/em>improved since the inspector general's reports. In an emailed statement, Bennett said senior ICE officials now accompany Nakamoto investigators during their reviews. ICE, she notes, has multiple layers of oversight, including local staff stationed in each facility. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='immigration-detention' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett says the agency is also holding contractors accountable. Between December 2018 and March 2019, she says, financial penalties against the contractors totaled $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one former senior ICE official told NPR the changes Bennett points out are minor. The bigger problem is ICE has no incentive to acknowledge problems. One of ICE's \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_0318_MGMT_CBJ-Annual-Performance-Review-DHS-Overview_0.pdf\">performance goals\u003c/a> is for all of its detention centers to pass inspection — and the former official, who requested anonymity to protect future employment prospects, says Nakamoto is well aware of the pressures to meet that target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nakamoto is a private firm based outside Washington, D.C. Its Japanese American owner, Jennifer Nakamoto, frequently credits her family's experience in World War II internment camps with shaping her company's mission. The company's inspections contract with ICE started in 2011. According to USAspending, the federal government's contracting database, the potential value of Nakamoto's contract was $116 million last fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia Valenzuela is an attorney with the American Immigration Council, an immigrant advocacy group. She's filed lawsuits seeking information about ICE and its contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there should be more public scrutiny of Nakamoto,\" Valenzuela says. \"How did it obtain the contract? How does this company continue to hold that contract?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nakamoto says it stands by its performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Nakamoto Vice President Mark Saunders said, \"we have made it abundantly clear that we are in no way political, and we have no agenda other than to do our work.\" He declined an interview, saying the company has already addressed negative allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats asked Nakamoto \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-16%20Letter%20to%20Nakamoto%20Group%20re%20ICE%20Detention%20Facility%20Inspections.pdf\">to respond to problems\u003c/a> raised in the inspector general's reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Attachment%203a%20-%20Response%20Letter%20from%20Nakamoto%20Group.pdf\">In her response\u003c/a>, Jennifer Nakamoto quoted from her own company's report, calling the watchdog investigators inexperienced and their findings an \"embarrassment\" to their office. She disputes many of the facts in the reports. She wrote about her mother's birth in an internment camp, saying she and her family have battled prejudice all their lives. \"Without question,\" she wrote, \"the detained immigrant population as a whole has a better life because of what Nakamoto does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That response has not mollified critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Cohen, Warren's oversight and investigations director, says neither Nakamoto nor ICE has shown interest in making changes. He says ICE has also not responded to follow up inquiries sent \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-04-15%20Letter%20to%20ICE%20re%20Private%20Immigration%20Contractors%20CoreCivic%20GEO%20Group%20and%20Nakamoto%20Group.pdf\">in April\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019.06.20%20Letter%20to%20ICE%20regarding%20the%20use%20of%20solitary%20confinement%20at%20immigration%20detention%20facilities.pdf\">June\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we concluded from all this mess is that still, nobody's taken responsibility,\" Cohen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nakamoto's contract with ICE is set to expire in September. ICE declined to comment about whether it would renew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last October, Osny Kidd was arrested outside his Los Angeles apartment and taken to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Adelanto, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was in handcuffs from feet to waist to arms. I arrived there in chains,\" Kidd says. Over 76 days, he says, he was strip searched, subject to filthy conditions, denied medications, and briefly placed in solitary confinement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treatment and conditions Kidd describes raise questions of whether the detention facility violated ICE's detention standards, based on a review of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-standards/2011\">ICE manual\u003c/a> that details those standards. The contractor ICE hired to inspect its facilities found no problems at Adelanto in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/facilityInspections/adelantoEastCa_CL_10_11_2018.pdf\">recent years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762117\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762117\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/osny-kidd-img_1406_vert-b796f7aef3c3b4729eae089beb4a5574c5d08a44.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osny Kidd says he was strip searched, denied medications, and briefly placed in solitary confinement at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. \u003ccite>(Family photo courtesy of Chance Kidd)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That contractor, a private firm called the Nakamoto Group, has become a lightning rod for criticism. The Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General has repeatedly criticized the company for cutting corners on its investigations, conducting improper interviews, and producing \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2018-06/OIG-18-67-Jun18.pdf\">inaccurate reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one instance, the government watchdog said \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/Mga/2018/oig-18-86-sep18.pdf\">ICE failed to take seriously the problem of braided bed sheets\u003c/a> hanging in detainee cells. It said similar braided sheets had been used as a noose in one suicide and in several other attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many critics, Nakamoto's failures cited in the government reports help explain why unsanitary, harsh conditions at the detention centers persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/02/738179391/dhs-inspector-general-finds-dangerous-overcrowding-in-border-patrol-facilities\">Public scrutiny of detention \u003c/a>facilities continues to increase. Meanwhile, the population of those detained at ICE's facilities last month reached an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-management\">all-time high of 54,000\u003c/a>. At the same time, there are persistent questions from the inspector general about whether ICE is properly overseeing the contractors that run a majority of the agency's facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/736940431/under-siege-and-largely-secret-businesses-that-serve-immigration-detention\">ICE relies heavily on private industry\u003c/a> in nearly every aspect of its operation. Outside contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic operate most of ICE's adult detention centers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to requests seeking comment about Kidd's claims. GEO referred questions regarding the case to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidd's attorney, Sabrina Damast, says such treatment and conditions should have alarmed inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nakamoto inspectors reported no problems at Adelanto in 2017 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/facilityInspections/adelantoEastCa_CL_10_11_2018.pdf\">2018\u003c/a>. For the last eight years, the company has held the contract to inspect conditions at more than 100 ICE facilities, including Adelanto. (Nakamoto inspections from previous years have not been made public.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time ICE's own Office of Detention Oversight reviewed Adelanto was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/odo-compliance-inspections/2014AdelantoJuly.pdf\">in 2014\u003c/a>. That year, ICE's internal review found the facility already fell short in six areas, including how it addressed sexual assault, its handling of detainee grievances and its food service. (Earlier this year, NPR sued the City of Adelanto seeking access to documents regarding conditions at that facility.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE declined an interview. But its spokeswoman Danielle Bennett says the agency \u003cem>has \u003c/em>improved since the inspector general's reports. In an emailed statement, Bennett said senior ICE officials now accompany Nakamoto investigators during their reviews. ICE, she notes, has multiple layers of oversight, including local staff stationed in each facility. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett says the agency is also holding contractors accountable. Between December 2018 and March 2019, she says, financial penalties against the contractors totaled $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one former senior ICE official told NPR the changes Bennett points out are minor. The bigger problem is ICE has no incentive to acknowledge problems. One of ICE's \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_0318_MGMT_CBJ-Annual-Performance-Review-DHS-Overview_0.pdf\">performance goals\u003c/a> is for all of its detention centers to pass inspection — and the former official, who requested anonymity to protect future employment prospects, says Nakamoto is well aware of the pressures to meet that target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nakamoto is a private firm based outside Washington, D.C. Its Japanese American owner, Jennifer Nakamoto, frequently credits her family's experience in World War II internment camps with shaping her company's mission. The company's inspections contract with ICE started in 2011. According to USAspending, the federal government's contracting database, the potential value of Nakamoto's contract was $116 million last fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia Valenzuela is an attorney with the American Immigration Council, an immigrant advocacy group. She's filed lawsuits seeking information about ICE and its contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there should be more public scrutiny of Nakamoto,\" Valenzuela says. \"How did it obtain the contract? How does this company continue to hold that contract?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nakamoto says it stands by its performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Nakamoto Vice President Mark Saunders said, \"we have made it abundantly clear that we are in no way political, and we have no agenda other than to do our work.\" He declined an interview, saying the company has already addressed negative allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats asked Nakamoto \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-16%20Letter%20to%20Nakamoto%20Group%20re%20ICE%20Detention%20Facility%20Inspections.pdf\">to respond to problems\u003c/a> raised in the inspector general's reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Attachment%203a%20-%20Response%20Letter%20from%20Nakamoto%20Group.pdf\">In her response\u003c/a>, Jennifer Nakamoto quoted from her own company's report, calling the watchdog investigators inexperienced and their findings an \"embarrassment\" to their office. She disputes many of the facts in the reports. She wrote about her mother's birth in an internment camp, saying she and her family have battled prejudice all their lives. \"Without question,\" she wrote, \"the detained immigrant population as a whole has a better life because of what Nakamoto does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That response has not mollified critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Cohen, Warren's oversight and investigations director, says neither Nakamoto nor ICE has shown interest in making changes. He says ICE has also not responded to follow up inquiries sent \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-04-15%20Letter%20to%20ICE%20re%20Private%20Immigration%20Contractors%20CoreCivic%20GEO%20Group%20and%20Nakamoto%20Group.pdf\">in April\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019.06.20%20Letter%20to%20ICE%20regarding%20the%20use%20of%20solitary%20confinement%20at%20immigration%20detention%20facilities.pdf\">June\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we concluded from all this mess is that still, nobody's taken responsibility,\" Cohen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nakamoto's contract with ICE is set to expire in September. ICE declined to comment about whether it would renew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And among those with lawyers, 99 percent attend all hearings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The appearance rate is even higher in San Francisco’s immigration court (which handles cases from Kern County to the Oregon border), likely because Northern California communities have long-standing, robust legal services for immigrants, according to Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president emerita of the National Association of Immigration Judges.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation='Judge Dana Leigh Marks']“When the first wave of Central American families began arriving in 2014, the Bay Area legal community moved quickly to organize and strategize how to maximize resources”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When the first wave of Central American families began arriving in 2014, the Bay Area legal community moved quickly to organize and strategize how to maximize \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pro bono\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> resources,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The data, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the U.S. Justice Department office in charge of immigration courts, covered all 46,743 cases of adults and children in family units who had deportation hearings between September 2018, when the court began tracking families, through the end of May, 2019.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“These appearance rates were remarkably high,” the Syracuse University report noted, given \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/17/deporting-asylum-seekers-who-miss-court-dates-is-not-rule-law/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.373066d7c931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">problems in court records\u003c/a> and the fact that there is no legal requirement that immigrants receive notice of their hearings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The charging document, called a Notice to Appear, may be sent by regular mail with no verification that it is received. 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"content": "\u003cp>A plan in the works from the Trump administration could make it harder for immigrants to request an exemption from fees when they seek to become citizens or legal permanent residents of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday is the deadline for public comments on a proposal that would eliminate proof of means-tested benefits, such as Medi-Cal or CalFresh food stamps, as a way to qualify for fee waivers in immigration applications. 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Congress declined the request, citing concerns about USCIS’s backlog of more than 750,000 pending immigration applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Rodgers, who directs the New Americans Campaign, a national coalition of nonprofits, decried that plan to divert money from processing immigration applications to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's an extremely cynical proposal from an agency that right now is proposing to make it harder for poor people to access immigration benefits for which they qualify by attacking the fee waiver pathway,” said Rodgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='green-card' label='Naturalization in the U.S.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most other federal agencies, which are funded by appropriations from Congress, USCIS depends on the fees it collects from immigrants to cover the majority of its operating costs. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:13 p.m. PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen is leaving her post, President Trump announced Sunday as he continues to focus on restricting border crossings amid a recent surge. Nielsen had recently warned a congressional panel of a \"catastrophe\" on the southern border after the number of crossings hit a 10-year high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump confirmed the news in a tweet, saying, \"I would like to thank her for her service.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1115011884154064896\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said Kevin McAleenan, the current commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, would serve as acting secretary. The change at the top comes with other uncertainty over management at the Department of Homeland Security. The president on Friday dropped his nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ronald Vitiello, telling reporters, \"We want to go in a tougher direction.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's own response to the situation at the border in recent days has been frenetic. First, he threatened to close the southern border as soon as last week. Then, he backed off that threat and issued a new one, saying he would put hefty tariffs on cars made in Mexico if the country did not do more to stop the flow of migrants as well as drugs coming north. He gave Mexico a \"one-year warning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often the primary person working to turn Trump's harsh immigration rhetoric into policy, Nielsen was under intense scrutiny. As recently as March, she faced tough questioning from House Democrats over the treatment of migrants, especially children, at the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen was Trump's second secretary of homeland security, taking over the cabinet post in December 2017 after John Kelly became White House chief of staff. Nielsen had worked as a top aide to Kelly at both DHS and the White House. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her tenure was marked throughout by tensions with Trump, who reportedly lashed out at her several times because illegal border crossings have not been stopped. Nielsen faced more public pressure after the Trump administration enacted a policy of family separation that resulted in thousands of migrant children being separated from their parents, which the president ultimately reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SecNielsen/status/1115027149054992384\">her resignation letter posted on Twitter\u003c/a>, Nielsen alluded to her rocky tenure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SecNielsen/status/1115027149054992384\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite our progress in reforming homeland security for a new age, I have determined that it is the right time for me to step aside,\" wrote Nielsen. \"I hope that the next Secretary will have the support of Congress and the courts in fixing the laws that have impeded our ability to fully secure America's borders and have contributed to discord in our nation's discourse.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, who have been critical of Nielsen's actions at DHS throughout her time there, said her departure showed that Trump's immigration policy was too extreme. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When even the most radical voices in the administration aren't radical enough for President Trump, you know he's completely lost touch with the American people,\" said Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Through lies, misdirection and rationalizations, Nielsen defended the indefensible and presided over policies, including family separation, that will live in infamy,\" Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a pro-immigration group, said in a statement. 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As the weather warms up, immigration authorities warn that the flow of migrants crossing the border will continue to grow, possibly reaching as high as 150,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While illegal border crossings are still far below the highs seen two decades ago, administration officials have warned that the current surge has led to a humanitarian crisis and put the immigration system at a \"breaking point.\"[aside tag='family-separation' label='Family Separation at the Border']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the majority of migrants arriving now are families and children fleeing violence and poverty in Central America. Unlike individual migrants looking for work, many of these migrants are seeking asylum and must be allowed to pursue their claims in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmed by the influx, Customs and Border Protection has begun releasing more families with a notice to appear in immigration court instead of first handing them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for processing and detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen tried to shift resources within her department to help with processing the migrants, and last week appointed a Border Patrol veteran to serve as coordinator of the department's response to the \"border crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to be clear with the American people: there is an unprecedented emergency at the southern border, and DHS is leading a true government-wide emergency response,\" Nielsen said in a statement announcing the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also joined President Trump in calling on Congress to close what they call \"loopholes\" in immigration law to make it easier to detain and deport migrant families and kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Defense With Trump — and For Him\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her tenure, Trump blamed Nielsen for an inability to get Congress to fully fund a wall on the southern U.S. border with Mexico, even though she was not involved in the spending deal Trump reached with congressional leaders earlier in 2018. The border wall funding question led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/22/679424044/government-shuts-down-ahead-of-holiday-over-stalemate-on-border-wall-funding\">a stalemate that caused the longest partial government shutdown \u003c/a>in U.S. history — with the president following through on his earlier threats not to sign critical spending bills unless he gets what he deems sufficient funding for his border wall and with congressional Democrats rejecting any legislation that would provide such funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats and immigration advocates also criticized Nielsen for policies she advocated that actively sought to separate children from their parents at the border, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621875523/shame-protesters-shout-at-dhs-head-kirstjen-nielsen-eating-at-mexican-restaurant\">a protest\u003c/a> inside a Mexican restaurant in Washington where the secretary was eating dinner last June. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law says if you cross between the ports of entry, you are entering without inspection and that is a crime,\" Nielsen said, defending herself in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/610113364/transcript-homeland-security-secretary-kirstjen-nielsens-full-interview-with-npr\">interview with NPR's John Burnett\u003c/a> in May 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our policy has not changed in that if you break the law, we will refer you for prosecution,\" she added. \"What that means, however, is if you are single adult, if you are part of a family, if you are pregnant, if you have any other condition, you're an adult and you break the law, we will refer you. 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Unlike individual migrants looking for work, many of these migrants are seeking asylum and must be allowed to pursue their claims in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmed by the influx, Customs and Border Protection has begun releasing more families with a notice to appear in immigration court instead of first handing them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for processing and detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen tried to shift resources within her department to help with processing the migrants, and last week appointed a Border Patrol veteran to serve as coordinator of the department's response to the \"border crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to be clear with the American people: there is an unprecedented emergency at the southern border, and DHS is leading a true government-wide emergency response,\" Nielsen said in a statement announcing the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also joined President Trump in calling on Congress to close what they call \"loopholes\" in immigration law to make it easier to detain and deport migrant families and kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Defense With Trump — and For Him\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her tenure, Trump blamed Nielsen for an inability to get Congress to fully fund a wall on the southern U.S. border with Mexico, even though she was not involved in the spending deal Trump reached with congressional leaders earlier in 2018. 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The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 explicitly gave the government that power, the court said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Justice Department spokesman told The Hill that the court's ruling was \"a victory for the Trump administration, for the rule of law, and above all, for our border security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/08/01/dhs-issues-waiver-expedite-border-construction-projects-san-diego-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waiver\u003c/a> let the government replace 14 miles of fencing on land stretching east from the Pacific Ocean, and also build \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-trump-border-prototypes-san-diego-20180228-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prototypes\u003c/a> of Trump's border wall in San Diego. Another project replaces an existing 14-foot section of fencing with a taller barrier that is supposed to be more effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11725642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11725642 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_18357252388304-3b6af53db2d0ca1061410928e000223507f70b05-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Border wall prototypes stand in San Diego near the Mexico U.S. border, seen from Tijuana. A federal court ruled Monday that the Department of Homeland Security had the authority to waive environmental regulations in constructing the prototypes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Border wall prototypes stand in San Diego near the Mexico-U.S. border, seen from Tijuana. 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I think the problem is this legislation is so broad that it can fold in what is frankly a racist campaign slogan that turned into some presidential act to build a wall along our southern border without any justification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Attorney General's Office said it was \"disappointed with the ruling, but pleased that the court recognized the Trump administration does not have unlimited power and that the administration's authority to build a barrier along our border is subject to judicial review,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Trump-s-border-wall-Fed-court-rejects-some-of-13608356.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time DHS has waived environmental laws in order to build barriers and roads at the border. 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