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She requested their last name be withheld for fear of retaliation against her brother, who has been held in detention for more than two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told NPR he had a fever, a serious eye infection for almost two weeks, and says he was denied medication for both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of sick people there, and they aren’t getting medical attention,” she said in a phone interview. “They are sleeping on the floor and sometimes don’t get meals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043009\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1178\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1005.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a May 1 press conference at the ICE-Enforcement and Removal Operation office in Miramar, Fla. DeSantis talked about an immigration enforcement effort called Operation Tidal Wave that officials say resulted in more than 1,100 arrests in a week in Florida. \u003ccite>(Joe Raedle/Getty Images/Getty Images North America)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Florida has pledged to be a national model for state cooperation with President Trump’s immigration crackdown. As detention centers here and across the country fill up, NPR has received an outpouring of messages about severe overcrowding and inhumane conditions in immigration facilities across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen detainees, family members and lawyers described similar issues as Maria, including detainees underfed and in ill health. Krome, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-04/OIG-24-21-Apr24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which is run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a>, has been dogged for years by allegations of inhumane conditions and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/05/us/sexual-abuse-reported-at-an-immigration-center.html\">investigated by the Department of Justice in 2000\u003c/a> on accusations of sexual abuse. This year alone, there have been two deaths at the facility: Ukrainian immigrant \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/reports/ddrMaksymChernyak.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maksym Chernayak\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/reports/ddr-GenryRuizGuillen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genry Ruiz Guillen\u003c/a> of Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, a group of Krome detainees assembled in the patio to form a human “SOS” sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, ICE told NPR that “a group of detainees at the Krome Service Processing Center (Krome) decided to stage a peaceful sit-in in the center’s recreation area. There has been no injuries or use of force of any kind during this demonstration.” It added, “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is committed to ensuring that all those in the agency’s custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments under appropriate conditions of confinement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a client who was at Krome,” says Miami based lawyer Jeff Botelho, who adds the client recently told him that “they had been sleeping on the floor for a week or two. For food, he said they were given a cup of rice and a glass of water a day. It was very concerning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers, advocates and experts are warning that overcrowding is the new normal across the country. The federal government is holding more than 48,000 people in immigration detention, about a 20% increase since January. But deportations are not keeping pace. Experts say that’s largely what’s driving the overcrowding in detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s incredible pressure to ramp up arrests inside the interior of the United States,” says Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a nonprofit immigrant advocacy group. He estimates that ICE is at 125% detention capacity. “And so far, there has been, if anything, just a slight increase in the capacity to actually deport people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE told NPR that “some ICE facilities are experiencing temporary overcrowding due to recent increases in detention populations. We are actively implementing measures to manage capacity while maintaining compliance with federal standards and our commitment to humane treatment. The reality is that these accusations do not reflect ICE’s policies or practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do the detention and deportation numbers say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The increase to nearly 50,000 detainees marks a sharp increase from the number of detentions during the Biden administration, which climbed to \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/reports/753/\">39,703 in January 2025\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syracuse University \u003ca href=\"https://newhouse.syracuse.edu/people/austin-kocher\">professor Austin Kocher\u003c/a>, who tracks immigration statistics, notes that immigration arrest numbers are simply not made available by local or federal officials.[aside postID=news_12002260 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']ICE did not respond to NPR’s questions about Florida’s detention numbers so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deportation numbers are even trickier to come by. The government claims it has deported more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-conducts-single-adult-family-unit-removal-flights-nov-1-0#:~:text=Since%20the%20Presidential%20Proclamation%20and,airports%20or%20the%20northern%20border.\">160,000 people\u003c/a> since Trump took office for a second term in January. Some experts are skeptical that those figures are accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Up until about three weeks ago or so, things were pretty consistent with what they were in terms of the end of the Biden Administration,” says \u003ca href=\"https://witnessattheborder.org/\">Tom Cartwright\u003c/a>, who has been tracking deportation flights for years. “Typically four to five deportation flights per day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cartwright says that number has increased in the last few weeks to six to seven flights a day, mostly to Central America. And while he has no way of knowing how many people are in each airplane, he calculates each plane has the capacity to carry between 120 and 150 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At most, that’s an estimated 1,050 people being deported every day out of the 50,000 or so who are detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Overcrowding, illness and hunger reported in detention facilities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“They’re serving rotten food. People are getting sick. My spouse is not eating,” J. told NPR in May. His loved one was being held at Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Fla. He asked that we refer to him by his first initial because he fears retaliation against his loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. is one of the many family members of detainees who called NPR to report their loved ones not receiving meals or getting rotten food. Detainees who NPR spoke to over the phone confirmed this, and many said they’d had to sleep on the floor for weeks.[aside postID=forum_2010101909406 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/immigration-1020x574.jpg']The situation at Krome Detention Center is believed to have gotten so dire, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida paid \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-05-29/krome-miami-wasserman-schultz\">a surprise visit\u003c/a> there last week. She told NPR that in the intake area, two to three dozen men are “crammed into the perimeter of a very tiny room for up to 48 hours. They defecate in front of each other, they eat, they sleep on stone floors. It’s really inhumane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say this situation is playing out nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen a rapid deterioration over the last few months,” says Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at the nonprofit advocacy group Detention Watch Network. “We’re hearing reports … that there isn’t enough food.” She says she’s increasingly been hearing accounts from people in detention going hungry. “I’ve heard people use the word ‘starving.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/ice-acting-director-says-9-people-died-in-custody-since-january/3567956\">nine deaths in ICE detention since January\u003c/a>, which is on track to be the deadliest year \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting\">since 2020\u003c/a>. At least three of those deaths have been in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Major expansion of detention facilities coming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is promising to increase the rate of arrests of immigrants to 3,000 people a day. “President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every single day,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJNXsOqFSZs&list=RDNSMJNXsOqFSZs&start_radio=1\">last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller was discussing the sweeping budget bill passed by the House and now before the Senate. It would provide $75 billion over the next couple of years in additional funding for ICE, including $45 billion for detention facilities and $14.4 billion for removal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can have, permanently, the safest, strongest, most secure system in American history,” Miller told the network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates warn the measure will expand mass detention and surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is not designed to increase the removals of people who are not legally allowed to be here,” says Deborah Fleischaker, former acting chief of staff for ICE during the Biden administration. “It is designed to hold more people for longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleischaker believes ICE has historically been underfunded. But she says the bill as written “is so significant and so extreme. What they’re trying to enable … I don’t think it is within the imagination of the American people when they voted for Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isacson of WOLA adds that the actions occurring now will multiply. “Plainclothes people using rough tactics and covering their faces to take people off the streets and sort of muscle them into vehicles,” he says. “This is going to be common. And it’s going to become much more common to see that all around the country military bases may have detention facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What are the chances my deportation flight will make a wrong turn?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I am anguished. I have not heard anything about my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late in May, NPR began receiving messages from Vivian Ortega, a mother in Venezuela, regarding her son, Jhonkleiver Ortega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jhonkleiver Ortega came to the U.S. three years ago and was working in construction. He was picked up while driving in November 2024 for not having a license, which under Florida state law is not available to immigrants without legal status. She told us she had sold her house in Venezuela to pay for his $7,000 bond in January. When he went to his next court hearing in February, he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian had heard from him infrequently, and she was terrified “he was barely eating in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data trackers and policy experts say the Trump administration’s goal of deporting one million migrants a year is so high that encouraging self-deportation is paramount. “The fact that [detention] is often so unsafe and unhealthy leads me to believe that there’s also a desire to wear people down,” says Isacson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-profile flights — with migrants sent to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and to El Salvador’s notorious detention center CECOT and, more recently, a flight headed to South Sudan — have sent a strong message. For Vivian, the possibility was a source of constant anguish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 3, NPR was able to locate Jhonkleiver Ortega at Glades Detention Center in Florida. He had been to immigration court the day before. NPR was given permission by the family to record his conversation with his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me they had to review my asylum case,” Ortega told his mother. “They told me I have to send proof that I was tortured in Venezuela. And in four months they would give me an answer. And I said I can’t anymore. It’s been months of this. They barely feed us here. I can’t anymore. I asked to be deported. This week or next I will be on a flight to Venezuela. If they give me a call from Louisiana I’ll call you before the flight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What?” his mother asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked the judge what are the chances that my flight will get lost and accidentally end up in another country? And she said if that happens you call the deporter. Or email me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you have immigration tips you can contact our tip line, on Whatsapp and Signal: 202-713-6697 or reporter Jasmine Garsd: jgarsd@npr.org \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It’s really inhumane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say this situation is playing out nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen a rapid deterioration over the last few months,” says Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at the nonprofit advocacy group Detention Watch Network. “We’re hearing reports … that there isn’t enough food.” She says she’s increasingly been hearing accounts from people in detention going hungry. “I’ve heard people use the word ‘starving.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/ice-acting-director-says-9-people-died-in-custody-since-january/3567956\">nine deaths in ICE detention since January\u003c/a>, which is on track to be the deadliest year \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting\">since 2020\u003c/a>. At least three of those deaths have been in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Major expansion of detention facilities coming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is promising to increase the rate of arrests of immigrants to 3,000 people a day. “President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every single day,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJNXsOqFSZs&list=RDNSMJNXsOqFSZs&start_radio=1\">last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller was discussing the sweeping budget bill passed by the House and now before the Senate. It would provide $75 billion over the next couple of years in additional funding for ICE, including $45 billion for detention facilities and $14.4 billion for removal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can have, permanently, the safest, strongest, most secure system in American history,” Miller told the network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates warn the measure will expand mass detention and surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is not designed to increase the removals of people who are not legally allowed to be here,” says Deborah Fleischaker, former acting chief of staff for ICE during the Biden administration. “It is designed to hold more people for longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleischaker believes ICE has historically been underfunded. But she says the bill as written “is so significant and so extreme. 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He was picked up while driving in November 2024 for not having a license, which under Florida state law is not available to immigrants without legal status. She told us she had sold her house in Venezuela to pay for his $7,000 bond in January. When he went to his next court hearing in February, he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian had heard from him infrequently, and she was terrified “he was barely eating in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data trackers and policy experts say the Trump administration’s goal of deporting one million migrants a year is so high that encouraging self-deportation is paramount. “The fact that [detention] is often so unsafe and unhealthy leads me to believe that there’s also a desire to wear people down,” says Isacson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-profile flights — with migrants sent to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and to El Salvador’s notorious detention center CECOT and, more recently, a flight headed to South Sudan — have sent a strong message. 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It is an absolutely critical base.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi was joined by Rep. 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Rep. John Garamendi said he has “serious opposition” to using Travis Air Force base to lock up immigrants for deportation, a move he says would compromise military readiness and national security. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Assigning resources toward immigration enforcement risks blurring this crucial distinction and setting a concerning precedent for the use of military installations for purposes beyond their intended scope,” Garamendi and Thompson wrote in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Defense declined to respond to KQED’s request for comment on the letter, saying it would only reply to the authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Congressmembers’ letter follows reporting based on a series of internal government emails obtained by KQED that show Defense and Homeland Security officials coordinating to evaluate several military installations, including Travis Air Force Base, for immigration detention and removal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5307156/immigration-dhs-memo-trump-migrant-detention-military-bases\">NPR reported\u003c/a> on an internal Homeland Security memo that described a plan to set up an immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas, and use it as a model for future sites on as many as 10 other military bases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Garamendi and eight other Democratic members of Congress wrote to Hegseth and President Donald Trump with “staunch objection to plans to use our nation’s military installations as migrant detention centers.” A Defense official replied that Hegseth had already approved the Fort Bliss plan and said the department was actively coordinating with Homeland Security on other immigration enforcement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038872 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/gettyimages-2210243092-1020x680.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In support of DHS activities, DoD maintains strict oversight to ensure that such support does not degrade overall military readiness, operational availability, or the military’s ability to respond to global contingencies,” wrote Mark Roosevelt Ditlevson, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget reconciliation bill, \u003ca href=\"https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/hasc-approves-150b-defense-increase-as-gop-shuts-down-amendments-to-curb-hegseth-doge/\">recently passed\u003c/a> out of the House Armed Services Committee with unanimous Republican support, includes language explicitly authorizing the use of military resources for immigration purposes, according to Garamendi, who is a senior member of the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the year, Garamendi has repeatedly criticized other moves by the Trump administration to divert military resources from Travis and elsewhere to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Garamendi \u003ca href=\"https://garamendi.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/garamendi.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Letter-20250124-Military_and_EO_Deportation-1545.pdf\">wrote\u003c/a> to the Department of Defense challenging the use of military aircraft from Travis Air Force Base for deportation flights. And in February, Garamendi sent \u003ca href=\"https://garamendi.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/garamendi.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Letter-20250219-Travis-Medical-Deployment-GTMO.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> raising concerns over a plan to deploy medical personnel from Travis Air Force Base’s David Grant Medical Center to the naval base at Guantanamo Bay for an immigration detention center there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flights appear to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-deportation-flights-paused-cost-c37c577a\">halted\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-03-05/military-deportation-flights%C2%A0migrants-17048119.html\">at least temporarily\u003c/a>. As to Guantanamo, the military has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/guantanamo-migrants-trump.html\">drastically scaled back\u003c/a> the planned detention operation there. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new report from the California Department of Justice finds that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> detention facilities across the state continue to fall short in providing basic mental health care, with gaps in suicide prevention and treatment, recordkeeping, and use of force incidents against mentally ill detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report’s release today comes alongside an aggressive expansion of immigration enforcement and broader changes to immigration policy under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The timing of the report’s release signals California officials plan to continue oversight as federal officials move to expand immigration detention capacity in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It flagged that California’s detainee population has grown since the state’s last review: more than 3,100 people were held in immigration detention statewide as of April 16, up from the daily average of about 1,750 in 2021, the report found. About 75% of those detained had no documented criminal history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators with the state’s Department of Justice inspected all six active immigration facilities in California. The inspections were conducted \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB103/id/1637414\">under a 2017 state law\u003c/a> that mandated the Attorney General’s office review and report on immigration detention facilities operating in California. It’s the fourth report to be released on conditions in facilities where noncitizens are detained in California by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings come amid broader concerns about federal oversight: the report notes that the federal Department of Homeland Security recently moved to shutter internal offices tasked with investigating\u003ca href=\"https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/civil-rights-advocates-brace-for-cuts-in-homeland-security-unit\"> civil rights complaints\u003c/a> and detention conditions. Last week, the homeland security department quietly removed more than 100 civil rights and civil liberties records from its website, sparking concerns about transparency and accountability in immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"California's Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks into a microphone.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta fields questions during a press conference on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“California’s facility reviews remain especially critical in light of efforts by the Trump Administration to both eliminate oversight of conditions at immigration detention facilities and increase its inhumane campaign of mass immigration enforcement, potentially exacerbating critical issues already present in these facilities by packing them with more people,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 165-page report details conditions at privately operated facilities where federal immigration officials detain people facing deportation. State investigators found “deficiencies in suicide prevention and intervention strategies” at every site, including missed mental health screenings and improper clinical decisions about when to release detainees from suicide watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffing shortages, poor coordination between medical and mental health care providers, and widespread problems with record-keeping contributed to the risks for detainees, many of whom suffer from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the report.[aside postID=news_12037889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-1020x602.jpg']Conditions that can worsen mental health, such as solitary confinement, remain common, the report found. At facilities known as Desert View Annex, Imperial, and Otay Mesa, investigators found that force was disproportionately used against individuals with mental health conditions, including cases where chemical agents were deployed. At the Mesa Verde facility in Bakersfield, officials failed to properly document or report the forced transfer of detainees who had participated in a peaceful hunger strike, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite federal guidelines discouraging the isolation of detainees with mental illness, the California review found people with serious mental health conditions were routinely placed in segregation, sometimes for months at a time. Investigators found some facilities failed to properly inform detainees about protections under a federal court settlement that requires legal representation for people with severe mental health disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat-down policies at the Mesa Verde center discouraged detainees from seeking health care, the review found. Detainees reported feeling that invasive searches deterred them from attending medical appointments or accessing other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Geo Group, the private company that operates several of the facilities, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the just-released report, but previously told CalMatters that the company provides high-quality medical services including “around-the-clock access to medical care, which is governed by the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/83yMC5y4qOUYRgA3SzbK9z?domain=ice.gov\">Performance-Based National Detention Standards\u003c/a> set by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and independently accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all instances, our contracted services are monitored by the federal government to ensure strict compliance with \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/UwYVCXDljNhjWwgkc6Xw7d?domain=urldefense.us\">Performance-Based National Detention Standards\u003c/a>, which apply to all ICE Processing Centers,” Geo spokesman Christopher Ferreira said in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Conditions that can worsen mental health, such as solitary confinement, remain common, the report found. At facilities known as Desert View Annex, Imperial, and Otay Mesa, investigators found that force was disproportionately used against individuals with mental health conditions, including cases where chemical agents were deployed. At the Mesa Verde facility in Bakersfield, officials failed to properly document or report the forced transfer of detainees who had participated in a peaceful hunger strike, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite federal guidelines discouraging the isolation of detainees with mental illness, the California review found people with serious mental health conditions were routinely placed in segregation, sometimes for months at a time. Investigators found some facilities failed to properly inform detainees about protections under a federal court settlement that requires legal representation for people with severe mental health disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat-down policies at the Mesa Verde center discouraged detainees from seeking health care, the review found. Detainees reported feeling that invasive searches deterred them from attending medical appointments or accessing other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Geo Group, the private company that operates several of the facilities, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the just-released report, but previously told CalMatters that the company provides high-quality medical services including “around-the-clock access to medical care, which is governed by the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/83yMC5y4qOUYRgA3SzbK9z?domain=ice.gov\">Performance-Based National Detention Standards\u003c/a> set by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and independently accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all instances, our contracted services are monitored by the federal government to ensure strict compliance with \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/UwYVCXDljNhjWwgkc6Xw7d?domain=urldefense.us\">Performance-Based National Detention Standards\u003c/a>, which apply to all ICE Processing Centers,” Geo spokesman Christopher Ferreira said in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Trump administration is looking to build an immigration detention facility at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, and pushing to speed up a review process, according to internal government communications obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed installation is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016823/ice-plans-new-detention-center-near-san-francisco-can-california-stop-it\">an aggressive effort to expand immigration detention \u003c/a>nationally, and specifically to use property owned by the U.S. Department of Defense in service of President Donald Trump’s stated goal of deporting 1 million people in his first year in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early April emails, federal officials discussed efforts to evaluate several military installations, including Travis Air Force Base, for Homeland Security’s immigration detention and removal operations — and tee them up for approval by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emails show significant coordination among Department of Defense and Homeland Security officials to expedite the plans. The emails do not describe the scope or design of the proposed detention compound at Travis Air Force Base, nor how many people it would be expected to hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond directly to questions about Travis Air Force Base, but he did affirm that ICE is actively working to expand detention capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>While we cannot confirm individual pre-decisional conversations, we can confirm that ICE is exploring all options in California to meet its current and future detention requirements, which include new detention facilities and possible support from partner agencies,” a written statement from the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3-800x473.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3-1020x603.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3-1536x908.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3-1920x1135.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy and a C-17 Globemaster sit on the tarmac at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, on July 17, 2008. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at Travis Air Force Base declined to comment, and the Department of Defense did not respond to KQED’s request for comment by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security officials have been considering at least 10 military bases around the country for immigration detention, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5307156/immigration-dhs-memo-trump-migrant-detention-military-bases\">NPR has reported\u003c/a>. A February Homeland Security memo obtained by NPR described a plan to use Fort Bliss, near El Paso, TX, as a model for other facilities, with up to 1,000 people initially detained there, eventually expanding to as many as 10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation that Travis is on the list of military facilities came as a shock to East Bay Rep. John Garamendi, a Democrat and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee whose district includes the Fairfield base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Travis Air Force Base is absolutely inappropriate for an immigration detention facility,” Garamendi told KQED. “Travis has a critical national security role of providing worldwide transportation services for personnel and material around the world. An immigration facility would significantly hamper the national security work that Travis is responsible for.”[aside postID=news_12037508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1020x680.jpg']Earlier this year, Garamendi and other members of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://garamendi.house.gov/media/press-releases/garamendi-sends-letter-demanding-answers-pentagon-over-use-military-assets-0\">raised strenuous opposition\u003c/a> when military aircraft from the base — C-17 planes typically meant for troops or cargo — were used for deportation flights to remove immigrants from the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just in terms of the cost factor, to say nothing of the readiness, every time you take a military aircraft and you use it for purposes that are not directly related to the national security work, that degrades the ability of the military to do what it’s supposed to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/expanding-migrant-operations-center-at-naval-station-guantanamo-bay-to-full-capacity/\">a plan to use the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba\u003c/a>, to detain as many as 30,000 immigrants appears to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-rethinking-guantanamo-immigrant-detention-plan-rcna194274\">scaled back drastically\u003c/a> in the face of obstacles, including public outcry over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033989/guantanamo-ice-detention-costs-40-million-in-1st-month-padilla-calls-spending-exorbitant\">$40 million pricetag\u003c/a> to lock up a couple of hundred men during its first month of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE is currently holding nearly 48,000 immigrants in detention facilities nationwide. Last year, ICE’s detention capacity was 41,500 beds. However, last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/congress-approves-even-more-funding-detention-deportation\">Congress added $430,000\u003c/a> to ICE’s current-year detention budget, allowing the agency to \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-first-100-days\">increase capacity to 54,500 beds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of detention beds is one factor limiting the Trump administration’s ability to increase deportations. ICE would also need to increase staffing and other resources, beyond last year’s $3.4 billion detention budget, which \u003ca href=\"https://nipnlg.org/news/press-releases/200-ngos-oppose-bidens-historic-expansion-ice-detention-system-detention-should\">advocates say was already a historic high\u003c/a>. The administration is looking to the Republican-controlled Congress to vastly expand the Homeland Security budget, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/trump-administration-immigrant-detention-facilities-services.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> has reported\u003c/a> that ICE has already solicited proposals from contractors worth as much as $45 billion for the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A KC-10 Extender is parked on the ramp as a C-5M Super Galaxy takes off at Travis Air Force Base, California, March 16, 2017. \u003ccite>(Hum Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous administrations have \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN10937\">used military bases to temporarily house \u003c/a>arriving refugees and have \u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Arthur/Brief-History-Military-Assistance-Immigration-Enforcement\">deployed soldiers to provide logistical support to the U.S. Border Patrol\u003c/a>. But the plan to use Travis and other military facilities for ICE detention represents a more substantial move toward militarizing immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, has called the Department of Defense a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1712826589498788\">“force multiplier”\u003c/a> for his deportation plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Jehan Laner, a senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, argues that using military bases for ICE detention violates the Posse Comitatus Act, a 19th-century law that limits the use of military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our country is kind of turning towards authoritarianism when you have the military starting to do civil law enforcement,” she said. “It becomes a very scary prospect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom#:~:text=About%20the%20California%20Newsroom&text=The%20California%20Newsroom%3A&text=provides%20one%2Don%2Done%20mentorship,UC%20Berkeley%20Journalism%20Fellows%20program.\">The California Newsroom\u003c/a> provided editorial support for this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Earlier this year, Garamendi and other members of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://garamendi.house.gov/media/press-releases/garamendi-sends-letter-demanding-answers-pentagon-over-use-military-assets-0\">raised strenuous opposition\u003c/a> when military aircraft from the base — C-17 planes typically meant for troops or cargo — were used for deportation flights to remove immigrants from the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just in terms of the cost factor, to say nothing of the readiness, every time you take a military aircraft and you use it for purposes that are not directly related to the national security work, that degrades the ability of the military to do what it’s supposed to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/expanding-migrant-operations-center-at-naval-station-guantanamo-bay-to-full-capacity/\">a plan to use the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba\u003c/a>, to detain as many as 30,000 immigrants appears to have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-rethinking-guantanamo-immigrant-detention-plan-rcna194274\">scaled back drastically\u003c/a> in the face of obstacles, including public outcry over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033989/guantanamo-ice-detention-costs-40-million-in-1st-month-padilla-calls-spending-exorbitant\">$40 million pricetag\u003c/a> to lock up a couple of hundred men during its first month of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE is currently holding nearly 48,000 immigrants in detention facilities nationwide. Last year, ICE’s detention capacity was 41,500 beds. However, last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/congress-approves-even-more-funding-detention-deportation\">Congress added $430,000\u003c/a> to ICE’s current-year detention budget, allowing the agency to \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-first-100-days\">increase capacity to 54,500 beds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of detention beds is one factor limiting the Trump administration’s ability to increase deportations. ICE would also need to increase staffing and other resources, beyond last year’s $3.4 billion detention budget, which \u003ca href=\"https://nipnlg.org/news/press-releases/200-ngos-oppose-bidens-historic-expansion-ice-detention-system-detention-should\">advocates say was already a historic high\u003c/a>. The administration is looking to the Republican-controlled Congress to vastly expand the Homeland Security budget, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/trump-administration-immigrant-detention-facilities-services.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> has reported\u003c/a> that ICE has already solicited proposals from contractors worth as much as $45 billion for the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A KC-10 Extender is parked on the ramp as a C-5M Super Galaxy takes off at Travis Air Force Base, California, March 16, 2017. \u003ccite>(Hum Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous administrations have \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN10937\">used military bases to temporarily house \u003c/a>arriving refugees and have \u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Arthur/Brief-History-Military-Assistance-Immigration-Enforcement\">deployed soldiers to provide logistical support to the U.S. Border Patrol\u003c/a>. But the plan to use Travis and other military facilities for ICE detention represents a more substantial move toward militarizing immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, has called the Department of Defense a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1712826589498788\">“force multiplier”\u003c/a> for his deportation plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Jehan Laner, a senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, argues that using military bases for ICE detention violates the Posse Comitatus Act, a 19th-century law that limits the use of military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our country is kind of turning towards authoritarianism when you have the military starting to do civil law enforcement,” she said. “It becomes a very scary prospect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom#:~:text=About%20the%20California%20Newsroom&text=The%20California%20Newsroom%3A&text=provides%20one%2Don%2Done%20mentorship,UC%20Berkeley%20Journalism%20Fellows%20program.\">The California Newsroom\u003c/a> provided editorial support for this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But now, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/08/newsom-healthcare-costs-inflated-estimates/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a handful of lawmakers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> say they think the Newsom administration purposely overestimated how much their bills would cost to help ensure they wouldn’t advance in the legislature. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A milestone in the largest dam removal in U.S. history \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/environment-energy-and-transportation/2024-08-28/klamath-river-flows-in-historic-channel-for-the-first-time-in-a-century\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">happened early Wednesday.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Two temporary dams were breached, directing the Klamath River back into its historic channel for the first time in more than a century. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immigration advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002260/protesters-decry-conditions-at-ice-detention-centers-as-aclu-report-detail-alleged-abuses\">this week \u003c/a>rallied outside the San Francisco Immigrations and Customs Enforcement field office in support of detainees who say they’re being mistreated. 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The detainees began by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917597/immigrant-detainees-strike-over-working-conditions-california-regulators-investigate\">protesting $1/day pay\u003c/a> for cleaning dormitories and bathrooms and then used the strikes to call attention to what they say are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942414/with-detainee-hunger-strike-in-third-week-ice-is-failing-to-review-requests-for-freedom-advocates-say\">sexually abusive pat-downs, retaliatory use of solitary confinement and substandard care \u003c/a>and conditions. Advocates say eight people are still refusing food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eunice Hernandez Chenier, an organizer with Pangea Legal Services, said waging a hunger strike shows how serious the concerns are for people living inside the two privately operated immigration jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is obviously a very big sacrifice and a decision that one does not take lightly,” said Hernandez Chenier. “So you can imagine how terrible conditions and treatment are in the facilities in order for someone to make such a decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez Chenier added that two hunger strikers were transferred to a different ICE facility in Tacoma, WA, last week, a move she called retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retaliatory transfers are common when folks are striking or when folks are just asserting their rights,” she said.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"immigrant-detention-centers\"]Protesters called on ICE to end their contracts with GEO Group for both Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex this December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191223005099/en/\">when the contracts are up for a 5-year review and renewal\u003c/a>. The publicly traded, multinational corrections corporation holds contracts to operate four out of six ICE detention centers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the protesters, an ICE spokeswoman referred KQED to a statement issued last year that reads in part: “ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference. ICE does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokeswoman, Alethea Smock, also pointed to the agency’s recent statement that it had ended a pandemic-era free phone call program as a result of budget constraints. ICE “would gladly reinstate the 520 minutes calling program with adequate appropriated funds” from Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/statement-free-cell-phone-minutes-provided-during-covid-19-public-health-emergency\">the statement said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she referenced \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/2-12.pdf\">ICE’s detention standards regarding solitary confinement\u003c/a>, which governs the use of cells for “disciplinary segregation” or “administrative segregation.” The standards say segregation must be reviewed every 30 days if it stretches longer than that. It also states that “every effort” shall be made to place detainees with “serious mental illness” in an alternate setting where they can receive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grievances Reveal Abuse and Neglect, Advocates Say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The protest in San Francisco occurred on the same day that the ACLU of Northern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Resistance%20Retaliation%20Repression%20-%20Two%20Years%20in%20California%20Immigration%20Detention.pdf\">released a report\u003c/a> documenting what it called a pattern of hazardous, inhumane conditions, medical neglect and retaliation across all six ICE facilities in California, which have a combined capacity to hold nearly 7,200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is based on a database of 485 grievance claims filed over the past two years by immigrants held at all six ICE facilities in California. The claim records were obtained through a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit or directly from the people who filed them. 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An \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2023-11/OIG-24-03-Nov23.pdf\">inspection\u003c/a> last November at the Mesa Verde facility found staff did not accurately report a use of force incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Complaint Charges Sexual Abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the day before the protest, half a dozen detained immigrants at Golden State Annex filed a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.craft.cloud/5cd1c590-65ba-4ad2-a52c-b55e67f8f04b/assets/media/Programs/Immigrant-Rights/CRCL-Complaint-IR-08272024.pdf\">federal civil rights complaint \u003c/a>alleging sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination, based on their sexual orientation, gender expression or as retaliation for speaking out over poor conditions. The complaint charges that guards repeatedly made sexually suggestive and threatening comments to a gay couple who had fled violence in Colombia, subjected a transgender woman to sexually intrusive pat-down searches and waged a campaign of sexually degrading comments against a man after he protested medical neglect and mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The detainees filing the complaint are asking the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to investigate and ensure that staff members charged with abuse are barred from working with detained individuals, according to attorney Lee Ann Felder-Heim with the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the six people involved only filed the complaint after waiting months for a response to earlier reports of the abusive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of reports of sexual abuse and harassment in many facilities across the country,” Felder-Heim said. “So this is definitely not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, GEO Group spokesman Christopher Ferreira said the company takes all allegations of sexual abuse and harassment “with the utmost seriousness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a zero-tolerance policy as it relates to such matters and take steps to ensure a thorough investigation of all related complaints,” he said, adding that GEO is committed to providing services to the Department of Homeland Security “in accordance with all established federal standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alternatives to Detention Are Cheaper\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE currently has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/featured-issue-immigration-detention\">funding to hold 41,500 people\u003c/a> in immigration detention at any given time at an annual cost of $3.4 billion. Just over \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/quickfacts/\">36,000 people were in custody\u003c/a> as of Aug. 11. The American Immigration Lawyers Association estimates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/featured-issue-immigration-detention\">cost of detention at $165/day\u003c/a> per person. ICE’s “Alternatives to Detention” program, involving community-based supervision, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/features/atd\">a cost of $8/day\u003c/a> per individual.[aside label=\"More Immigration Coverage\" tag=\"asylum-seeker\"]Immigration detention is not a punishment for a crime but a form of civil detention to ensure individuals appear for court proceedings and to protect the public from those who could be considered a safety risk. \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11343\">Immigration law requires mandatory detention\u003c/a> for certain immigrants who are in deportation proceedings because of their criminal record, and in some cases for those seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil liberties advocates argue that it’s not necessary to detain people who are fighting deportation, as there are fairer and much less expensive \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/alternatives-immigration-detention-overview\">alternatives to detention\u003c/a>. They say immigration detention is harmful and inhumane. And they point to evidence that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/11-years-government-data-reveal-immigrants-do-show-court\">vast majority of non-detained people show up\u003c/a> for their immigration court appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many conservatives – and some moderates – insist that immigration detention is a necessary part of strengthening border enforcement and removing more of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants from the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has pledged \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/video/2024/01/10/trump-promises-largest-deportation-effort-in-the-history-of-our-country-1184677\">“the largest deportation effort in the history of our country,”\u003c/a> if elected in November. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Protesters called on ICE to end their contracts with GEO Group for both Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex this December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191223005099/en/\">when the contracts are up for a 5-year review and renewal\u003c/a>. The publicly traded, multinational corrections corporation holds contracts to operate four out of six ICE detention centers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the protesters, an ICE spokeswoman referred KQED to a statement issued last year that reads in part: “ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference. ICE does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokeswoman, Alethea Smock, also pointed to the agency’s recent statement that it had ended a pandemic-era free phone call program as a result of budget constraints. ICE “would gladly reinstate the 520 minutes calling program with adequate appropriated funds” from Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/statement-free-cell-phone-minutes-provided-during-covid-19-public-health-emergency\">the statement said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she referenced \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/2-12.pdf\">ICE’s detention standards regarding solitary confinement\u003c/a>, which governs the use of cells for “disciplinary segregation” or “administrative segregation.” The standards say segregation must be reviewed every 30 days if it stretches longer than that. It also states that “every effort” shall be made to place detainees with “serious mental illness” in an alternate setting where they can receive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grievances Reveal Abuse and Neglect, Advocates Say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The protest in San Francisco occurred on the same day that the ACLU of Northern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Resistance%20Retaliation%20Repression%20-%20Two%20Years%20in%20California%20Immigration%20Detention.pdf\">released a report\u003c/a> documenting what it called a pattern of hazardous, inhumane conditions, medical neglect and retaliation across all six ICE facilities in California, which have a combined capacity to hold nearly 7,200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is based on a database of 485 grievance claims filed over the past two years by immigrants held at all six ICE facilities in California. The claim records were obtained through a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit or directly from the people who filed them. 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An \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2023-11/OIG-24-03-Nov23.pdf\">inspection\u003c/a> last November at the Mesa Verde facility found staff did not accurately report a use of force incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Complaint Charges Sexual Abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the day before the protest, half a dozen detained immigrants at Golden State Annex filed a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.craft.cloud/5cd1c590-65ba-4ad2-a52c-b55e67f8f04b/assets/media/Programs/Immigrant-Rights/CRCL-Complaint-IR-08272024.pdf\">federal civil rights complaint \u003c/a>alleging sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination, based on their sexual orientation, gender expression or as retaliation for speaking out over poor conditions. The complaint charges that guards repeatedly made sexually suggestive and threatening comments to a gay couple who had fled violence in Colombia, subjected a transgender woman to sexually intrusive pat-down searches and waged a campaign of sexually degrading comments against a man after he protested medical neglect and mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The detainees filing the complaint are asking the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to investigate and ensure that staff members charged with abuse are barred from working with detained individuals, according to attorney Lee Ann Felder-Heim with the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the six people involved only filed the complaint after waiting months for a response to earlier reports of the abusive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of reports of sexual abuse and harassment in many facilities across the country,” Felder-Heim said. “So this is definitely not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, GEO Group spokesman Christopher Ferreira said the company takes all allegations of sexual abuse and harassment “with the utmost seriousness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a zero-tolerance policy as it relates to such matters and take steps to ensure a thorough investigation of all related complaints,” he said, adding that GEO is committed to providing services to the Department of Homeland Security “in accordance with all established federal standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alternatives to Detention Are Cheaper\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE currently has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/featured-issue-immigration-detention\">funding to hold 41,500 people\u003c/a> in immigration detention at any given time at an annual cost of $3.4 billion. 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We have no idea what it's about, if there are any side effects,' \" said Edwin Carmona-Cruz, director of community engagement at the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, a coalition of pro-bono legal service providers that offer support to immigrants in detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While federal, state and local officials have engaged in a public outreach campaign for months to ensure that residents are aware of the facts about the vaccine, advocates say similar efforts have not been made within detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joaquin Arambula, state Assemblymember, D-Fresno\"]'Individuals in detention harbor serious fears and mistrust towards detention operators, and as a result may not feel safe accepting vaccines from these operators.'[/pullquote]And even when information is provided by ICE — or the subcontractors that run their facilities — there is often widespread distrust. There have been \u003ca href=\"https://news.usc.edu/180906/covid-19-suicide-and-substandard-medical-care-driving-high-rate-of-death-among-ice-detainees/\">numerous reports\u003c/a> of the substandard health care provided at ICE facilities, and advocates say detainees may be skeptical of what immigration officials are telling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Individuals in detention harbor serious fears and mistrust toward detention operators, and as a result may not feel safe accepting vaccines from these operators,\" said state Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno, at a press conference on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given these serious challenges around trust towards detention operators, it is clear that the public health officials and the community can play a vital role with respect to how vaccinations and information are presented and shared with individuals inside these facilities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arambula has introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB263\">Assembly Bill 263\u003c/a>, which would \"require a private detention facility operator to comply with, and adhere to, all local and state public health orders and occupational safety and health regulations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no trust — and there's mistrust — in both ICE and for-profit prison operators like GEO Group and Core Civic,\" Carmona-Cruz said. \"How are they going to believe that the information that they're giving to them is true when ... the medical care and medical negligence that happens in these facilities runs rampant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11856995\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Herrera-1020x771.jpg\"]After hearing these concerns from detainees, Carmona-Cruz and others took on another approach. For three weeks, they've operated a hotline — staffed by health care professionals — that people in ICE detention could call to get any of their questions answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the program has only been in place at a few facilities: the Yuba County Jail, Golden State Annex and the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility. But advocates say it's the state's responsibility to expand these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Daniel Turner-Lloveras, a physician at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, is one of the health care providers who's been staffing these calls. He says a systematic approach is needed to address \"medical mistrust\" in detention facilities, since any infection hot spots will \"contribute to the spread of COVID-19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must try our best to counteract this misinformation by educating our patients in a way that they're going to understand, in a cultural and linguistically appropriate, patient-centered fashion,\" Turner-Lloveras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokesperson for CoreCivic — which runs the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego — said it has \"rigorously followed the guidance of local, state and federal health authorities, as well as our government partners.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Management & Training Corporation, which operates the Imperial Regional Detention Facility in Calexico, said it is providing the vaccine to \"all detainees who have expressed their desire to be vaccinated,\" and is providing informational sessions and documents about the vaccine in English, Spanish and other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jackie Gonzalez, policy director of Immigrant Defense Advocates\"]'Report after report came out that the federal government and the state government essentially played a game of hot potato.'[/pullquote]In a statement, ICE said it is \"firmly committed to the health and welfare of all those in its custody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in immigration detention facilities became eligible for the vaccine back in March. Advocates said there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857822/advocates-fear-immigrant-detainees-could-be-left-out-of-vaccination-plans\">months of back and forth\u003c/a> over who was responsible for providing the vaccine — the state or the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Report after report came out that the federal government and the state government essentially played a game of hot potato,\" said Jackie Gonzalez, policy director of Immigrant Defense Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This caused widespread concerns among advocates that detainees would be left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"mesa-verde\" label=\"more coverage\"]Eventually, on March 11, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864820/ice-detainees-in-california-now-eligible-for-covid-19-vaccine\">state officials opted to include the immigrant detention centers\u003c/a> in their March 15 rollout of the vaccine — since they are considered to be in high-risk congregate care facilities. This meant that the state would provide vaccine doses for detainees to county health departments, who would in turn provide them to detention centers to administer to the people held there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Carmona-Cruz said, California should recognize that vaccinating people in detention will ultimately help the state achieve its goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Immigrants in detention are also our neighbors, our friends, our family members, [they're] residents of the state. And they're also contributing to the success of how the state does. So we definitely need to consider and characterize it that way,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 12, 777 people in ICE detention in California have contracted the coronavirus since the pandemic started.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday released photos and video of South Texas immigrant processing centers that have become a renewed focus of criticism for continued poor conditions despite President Biden's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912060869/biden-pledges-to-dismantle-trumps-sweeping-immigration-changes-but-can-he-do-tha\">promises to fix Trump-era problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6566913/temporary-processing-facilities\">images appear\u003c/a> partly in response to photos released by Rep. Henry Cuellar and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/photos-overcrowded-border-patrol-migrant-tents-0525a96b-0dc8-473f-b59c-38b0b3e52760.html\">published by Axios\u003c/a> on Monday showing migrants crammed into \"pods\" divided only by plastic sheathing. Cuellar, a Democrat who represents the border town of Laredo, Texas, said he recently witnessed \"terrible conditions for the children\" at the Donna Processing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1404px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85.jpg 1404w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the photos released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shows detained families and unaccompanied children sit in areas divided by plastic sheathing at a temporary processing facility in Donna, Texas. \u003ccite>(Office of Congressman Henry Cuellar via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cuellar said the \"pods\" were meant to house 260 individuals, but that one of them held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. He said the children needed to be quickly moved from the facility into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ought to take care of those kids like they're our own kids,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy comes barely two months into the Biden presidency, amid a surge in migrants coming to the U.S. from Central America that began late last year. The new administration says it sees ending a Trump-era policy of forcing migrants to remain in Mexico while their cases adjudicated as \"a moral imperative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More has to be done to address this growing humanitarian crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These migrant children need our help right now. Not later. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/hbeLnfIxNF\">https://t.co/hbeLnfIxNF\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Rep. 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Henry Cuellar (D) released a series of photos this Monday that show migrant families and unaccompanied minors detained in a temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas on March 20, 2021. Cuellar has said the some spaces were meant to house 260 individuals, but that one of them held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Office of Congressman Henry Cuellar via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images appear to show migrants undergoing processing and general living conditions, such as rows of migrants sleeping on mattresses on the ground, covered in silver emergency blankets. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday released photos and video of South Texas immigrant processing centers that have become a renewed focus of criticism for continued poor conditions despite President Biden's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912060869/biden-pledges-to-dismantle-trumps-sweeping-immigration-changes-but-can-he-do-tha\">promises to fix Trump-era problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6566913/temporary-processing-facilities\">images appear\u003c/a> partly in response to photos released by Rep. Henry Cuellar and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/photos-overcrowded-border-patrol-migrant-tents-0525a96b-0dc8-473f-b59c-38b0b3e52760.html\">published by Axios\u003c/a> on Monday showing migrants crammed into \"pods\" divided only by plastic sheathing. Cuellar, a Democrat who represents the border town of Laredo, Texas, said he recently witnessed \"terrible conditions for the children\" at the Donna Processing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1404px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85.jpg 1404w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the photos released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shows detained families and unaccompanied children sit in areas divided by plastic sheathing at a temporary processing facility in Donna, Texas. \u003ccite>(Office of Congressman Henry Cuellar via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cuellar said the \"pods\" were meant to house 260 individuals, but that one of them held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. He said the children needed to be quickly moved from the facility into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ought to take care of those kids like they're our own kids,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy comes barely two months into the Biden presidency, amid a surge in migrants coming to the U.S. from Central America that began late last year. The new administration says it sees ending a Trump-era policy of forcing migrants to remain in Mexico while their cases adjudicated as \"a moral imperative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More has to be done to address this growing humanitarian crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These migrant children need our help right now. Not later. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/hbeLnfIxNF\">https://t.co/hbeLnfIxNF\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Rep. Henry Cuellar (@RepCuellar) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepCuellar/status/1374090306392580097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cuellar said one reason he released the photos was because the Biden administration had refused media access to the facility in Donna, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new White House says the Trump administration handed it a crumbling immigration and asylum system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866047\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866047 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858607/no-nos-escucharon-se-contagia-de-covid-19-el-inmigrante-detenido-por-ice-que-realizo-una-huelga-de-hambre-en-favor-de-mas-protecciones-contra-la-pandemia\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of January, Juan Jose Erazo Herrera found himself coughing up blood and having difficulty breathing. The 20-year-old asylum seeker, held by immigration authorities at a jail north of Sacramento, tested positive for COVID-19 on Jan. 7, a few days after his symptoms began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The diagnosis felt particularly stinging to Erazo Herrera. He had repeatedly called on officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Yuba County Jail to do more to prevent a coronavirus outbreak at the facility, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835611/ice-detainees-at-yuba-jail-press-for-covid-19-protections\">waging hunger strikes\u003c/a> last year to protest what he believed were unsafe conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Juan Jose Erazo Herrera, ICE detainee at Yuba County Jail\"]'It’s not our fault we get sick when we can’t protect ourselves.'[/pullquote]“They didn’t listen to us,” Erazo Herrera said in Spanish. “And it’s really unfair. It’s not our fault we get sick when we can’t protect ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus has spread rapidly at the Yuba County Jail, infecting about half of all the people currently locked up there. More than 120 county inmates and nine ICE detainees at the facility have tested positive for COVID-19 since last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guards isolated Erazo Herrera in a small, concrete cell with no windows for 12 days, he said. When he was first placed there, he said the conditions were squalid, with a filthy toilet, moldy walls and a bed covered in dust and other people’s hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to lie, when I first saw the cell, I started crying,” said Erazo Herrera, who is originally from El Salvador. “I tried to protest. It made me so sad to see how dirty it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guards told him the unit was the only one available for quarantine, he said. He asked for cleaning products and wiped it down himself despite having a severe headache and shortness of breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, a federal judge in San Francisco has been monitoring conditions at the jail, located in Marysville, and on Dec. 23 he ordered ICE take steps to protect detainees, including testing them at least weekly for the coronavirus, and ensuring cells are cleaned and disinfected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria intervened after immigrants held at Yuba County Jail and another facility in Bakersfield \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832472/people-are-terrified-sf-judge-orders-covid-19-testing-at-ice-facility\">sued to force ICE to release detainees\u003c/a> in an effort to reduce the detained population and allow for social distancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the cleaning requirement at Yuba County Jail isn’t being met, said Kelly Wells, an attorney with the San Francisco Public Defender’s immigration unit, who represents Erazo Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've heard consistently from every single detainee who has been moved since the order that they have arrived to filthy cells that clearly hadn't even been cleaned, much less disinfected,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11857142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Yuba-County-Jail-Cells.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior doors of isolation cells at Yuba County Jail\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Yuba-County-Jail-Cells.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Yuba-County-Jail-Cells-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE detainees and other people incarcerated at Yuba County Jail can be placed in isolation in windowless 'safety cells' for days at a time. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman with the Yuba County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the jail, referred questions to ICE. The immigration agency also declined to comment about the conditions of Erazo Herrera’s medical segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot comment due to pending litigation,” said ICE spokesman Jonathan Moor in a statement. “However, a lack of comment should not be construed as an agreement with or stipulation to any allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 9,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19 while in ICE detention, according to agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus#detStat\">figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE detention centers must ensure that medical isolation is “operationally distinct” from any punitive form of housing, according to the agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/coronavirus/eroCOVID19responseReqsCleanFacilities.pdf\">pandemic response requirements\u003c/a>. For instance, facilities must provide detainees with access to TV, recreation and books to the fullest extent possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrants held at various detention centers, including private prisons and county jails, have reported that ICE is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841120/ice-misusing-solitary-confinement-for-covid-19-quarantine-detainees-say\">misusing solitary confinement\u003c/a> for COVID-19 quarantine. Erazo Herrera said the 12-day quarantine he experienced felt like a punishment, and his mental health deteriorated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']He was kept in the cell alone, 22 hours per day, he said. For days, there was nothing for him to do to pass the time. The jail eventually allowed him to have books friends outside the jail sent him, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That cell is not for a human being, it’s like for keeping a dangerous animal locked up. There’s no TV, there’s nothing,” said Erazo Herrera. “You start feeling so depressed that you think about killing yourself. You wonder what you’ve done to deserve to be treated this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was released from medical segregation last week and said he no longer feels severe COVID-19 symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since April, the ICE detainee population at Yuba County Jail has decreased from 144 to 16 people. Judge Chhabria ordered the agency to release more than 50 immigrants from the facility. Others were transferred, deported or released by ICE, which can free individuals after assessing their public safety and flight risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Wells said conditions are so miserable that some immigrants held at Yuba County Jail have given up and agreed to be deported after just one month in detention. But Erazo Herrera has endured three years at the jail as he waits for his asylum case to be decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Juan Jose has not agreed to deportation because he really is in a dire situation,” said Wells. “In addition to the abuse that he suffered by his mother, he was also repeatedly beaten by gang members and threatened with death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erazo Herrera fled El Salvador and crossed the U.S. border without a parent when he was 16. Officials with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency responsible for caring for unaccompanied migrant minors, took him into custody and subsequently released him to an older brother in New York, said Wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Erazo Herrera was involved in a robbery, for which he served time at a juvenile facility. When he turned 18, ICE detained him and sent him to the Yuba jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11857138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Herrera-Snow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"821\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Herrera-Snow.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Herrera-Snow-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Herrera-Snow-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Herrera-Snow-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Jose Erazo Herrera plays in the snow in New York, where he lived with his brother before his involvement in a robbery led him to be detained by ICE. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Juan Jose Erazo Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The crime wass a mistake Erazo Herrera said he frequently regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve paid for it. I haven’t been free since I was 16,” he said. “I just want an opportunity to show that I am different, that I’ve learned a lot while locked up here. I’m not the same kid I was then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, a judge in Yuba County Superior Court granted Erazo Herrera special immigrant juvenile status, reserved for undocumented immigrants under age 21 who were abused by a parent, and for whom returning to their home country is not in their best interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The classification is not enough for ICE to release him from detention, said Wells, but it opens the door for him to apply for a green card. 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"content": "\u003cp>Immigrant advocates and San Francisco’s public defender announced a class-action lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday, calling for a substantial reduction in the population at two immigration detention centers in California, which they say is the only way of protecting detainees from the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/ICE_CLASS_ACTION_COMPLAINT_042020.pdf\">suit\u003c/a>, which was filed in federal district court in San Francisco Monday, is the first class action filed on behalf of more than 400 people detained by ICE at the Yuba County Jail and the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility, a private prison in Bakersfield, according to the plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the detained people in either facility have yet been diagnosed with COVID-19. But unless ICE can reduce the population enough to permit detainees to maintain social distancing of 6 feet or more, it’s just a matter of time advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The detainees in these facilities live in crowded, shared spaces,” according to the complaint. “Many sleep and spend most waking hours within arm’s reach of one another in assigned bunk beds in cramped dormitories. They share dining areas, standing inches apart as they wait in line for food and then sitting shoulder to shoulder as they eat on chairs that are bolted to the floor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a news conference Tuesday, Charles Joseph, a Sacramento resident who was released from Mesa Verde on April 13 under a judge’s orders, said he felt ICE treated the health of detainees with disregard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They continue to fill dorms to capacity with people who could be carriers. There are 100 bunks in one room,” said Joseph. “This pandemic has caused us not to be quiet anymore, because our detention for a civil matter may be a death sentence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph said he had joined a sit-in and a hunger strike at Mesa Verde to protest conditions. The lawsuit also seeks to prevent ICE from retaliating against those who participate in such protests, and asked the court to set aside an ICE policy that prohibits “engaging in or inciting a group demonstration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE will not comment on pending litigation, the agency said in a statement released by spokesman Jonathan Moor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement also said that the agency “is taking all necessary precautionary measures to ensure all ICE detainees are screened medically upon their arrival to our facilities. Comprehensive protocols are in place for the protection of staff and detainee patients, including the appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE), in accordance with CDC guidance ... . As an additional measure of defense, ICE detainees suspected of exposure or infection of certain diseases are medically ‘cohorted,’ in line with CDC guidelines and ICE detention standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency added that starting April 17, people detained at Mesa Verde would receive surgical masks every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday evening, 253 ICE detainees \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\">had been diagnosed with COVID-19\u003c/a> across the country, along with 32 ICE agents working in detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"immigration\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An outbreak at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego has infected 29 detained immigrants and at least 16 staff members from both ICE and the company that operates the jail, CoreCivic. It is the only one of the four ICE facilities in California to report coronavirus cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration lawyers representing detainees at the Yuba County Jail and Mesa Verde say they don’t believe ICE is testing people for coronavirus at either location. Moor, the ICE spokesman, said he did not know whether COVID-19 tests have been performed on anyone at the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein, along with Rep. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, called on the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general to investigate an incident at Otay Mesa in which some detainees say they were pepper-sprayed or threatened with pepper spray when they resisted guards’ requirement that they sign liability release forms in order to receive protective masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has reduced the number of people in custody nationally, from more than 38,000 three weeks ago to a total of just over 32,000 as of April 11. There were 3,402 people in ICE’s four California detention facilities as of March 28, according to the most recent data available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials said they have released almost 700 medically vulnerable immigrants, including pregnant women and people over 60. Many of these releases have been ordered by courts responding to a series of lawsuits filed in recent weeks by advocates around the country, including at least 10 in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco lawsuit comes just one day after a federal judge in Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://creeclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2020-04-20-132-Order-Granting-Amicus-Brs.-Subclass-Cert.-PI.pdf\">ordered\u003c/a> ICE to promptly identify every person in its custody nationally who is at risk for coronavirus complications and to consider each one for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles case, U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal gave ICE 10 days to identify all detainees who are over 55 years old, pregnant or suffer from chronic health conditions. He wrote that ICE’s policies and delayed response were likely to subject them to a “substantial risk of serious harm” and amounted to “callous indifference” to their safety and well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernal also pointed out that ICE has the option to release people — including medically vulnerable individuals — “on bond or conditional parole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the San Francisco lawsuit Tuesday, Bree Bernwanger, an attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, said plaintiffs were asking the court to order ICE to release enough people to make the facilities safe for those who remain inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conditions of confinement in both facilities is unconstitutional and incredibly dangerous,\" Bernwanger said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An outbreak at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego has infected 29 detained immigrants and at least 16 staff members from both ICE and the company that operates the jail, CoreCivic. It is the only one of the four ICE facilities in California to report coronavirus cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration lawyers representing detainees at the Yuba County Jail and Mesa Verde say they don’t believe ICE is testing people for coronavirus at either location. Moor, the ICE spokesman, said he did not know whether COVID-19 tests have been performed on anyone at the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein, along with Rep. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, called on the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general to investigate an incident at Otay Mesa in which some detainees say they were pepper-sprayed or threatened with pepper spray when they resisted guards’ requirement that they sign liability release forms in order to receive protective masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has reduced the number of people in custody nationally, from more than 38,000 three weeks ago to a total of just over 32,000 as of April 11. There were 3,402 people in ICE’s four California detention facilities as of March 28, according to the most recent data available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials said they have released almost 700 medically vulnerable immigrants, including pregnant women and people over 60. Many of these releases have been ordered by courts responding to a series of lawsuits filed in recent weeks by advocates around the country, including at least 10 in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco lawsuit comes just one day after a federal judge in Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://creeclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2020-04-20-132-Order-Granting-Amicus-Brs.-Subclass-Cert.-PI.pdf\">ordered\u003c/a> ICE to promptly identify every person in its custody nationally who is at risk for coronavirus complications and to consider each one for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles case, U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal gave ICE 10 days to identify all detainees who are over 55 years old, pregnant or suffer from chronic health conditions. He wrote that ICE’s policies and delayed response were likely to subject them to a “substantial risk of serious harm” and amounted to “callous indifference” to their safety and well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernal also pointed out that ICE has the option to release people — including medically vulnerable individuals — “on bond or conditional parole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the San Francisco lawsuit Tuesday, Bree Bernwanger, an attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, said plaintiffs were asking the court to order ICE to release enough people to make the facilities safe for those who remain inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conditions of confinement in both facilities is unconstitutional and incredibly dangerous,\" Bernwanger said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the early morning of June 12, 2017, a group of eight Central American migrants decided to go on a hunger strike to protest conditions at the immigration detention center where they were being held in Adelanto, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When detainees arrive at the facility, they’re given a handbook that states \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6609612-Adelanto-Detainee-Handbook.html#document/p36/a543360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explicitly\u003c/a>, “Detention is NOT prison.” Immigration detention is where the government holds people while deciding whether to deport them, and most detainees have \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/583/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no criminal record\u003c/a>. But this group said the conditions felt like those of a penitentiary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=802939294&mediaId=803118930\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://jwp.io/s/nOiY1Pd6\">\u003cem>Don’t see this video? Click here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among their \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584013-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-125-1.html#document/p128/a545987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaints\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guards were discriminating against them, they lacked access to clean water, the bonds for their immigration cases were too expensive and they were receiving information only in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When detention officers ordered them to return to their beds for a routine population “count,” the eight men refused to move from tables in the facility’s day room until they could speak to a supervisor or an official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveillance footage obtained by NPR shows what happened next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detention officers spent several minutes speaking to the detainees, telling them to return to their bunks. They waived a canister of pepper spray in front of them, then attempted to physically move the detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Isaac Antonio Lopez Castillo, one of the detainees who sued two detention officers at the Adelanto facility\"]‘I couldn’t take it. I was even throwing up from the pepper gas.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video shows the detainees trying to remain seated with their arms linked. But detention officers would later claim they were inciting a “rebellion” and “assaulting” staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detention officers then sprayed pepper spray at the men at least three times and forcibly removed them from the tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they visibly recoiled from the spray, some of the detainees were pushed into walls, pulled to the ground or dragged on the floor by guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, though not seen on camera, five of the detainees were placed in hot showers. Hot water, however, can worsen the painful burning effect from pepper spray, something an internal oversight office at the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6278922-HQ-Part2-Copy.html#document/p15/a541908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noted\u003c/a> in a review of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t take it,” Isaac Antonio Lopez Castillo, one of the detainees, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584113-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-111-3.html#document/p208/a547304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">later testified\u003c/a> in a deposition. “I was even throwing up from the pepper gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight detainees were then sent to “segregation” — ICE’s term for solitary confinement — for 10 days for “engaging in or inciting a group demonstration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR obtained footage of the incident from a federal courthouse in Riverside where the men sued the two detention officers who used pepper spray, as well as the for-profit company that runs the facility, Florida-based GEO Group. Their lawsuit contended that the guards used excessive force and violated their civil rights and that GEO was negligent in its training. In late January, the two sides \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.712028/gov.uscourts.cacd.712028.205.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notified\u003c/a> the court that they had agreed to settle the case “for a confidential amount.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement of the settlement ends 20 months of legal proceedings that — through the release of documents, depositions and video from ICE’s processing center in Adelanto — have opened a window into a facility that has come under intense scrutiny from federal inspectors and immigration advocates alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/15/794660949/despite-findings-of-negligent-care-ice-to-expand-troubled-calif-detention-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR reported\u003c/a> in January, a previously confidential government inspection found that the facility was failing to meet many of the government’s own standards for solitary confinement, mental health treatment and medical care. The report also found that staff at Adelanto had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6278922-HQ-Part2-Copy.html#document/p10/a541902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retaliated\u003c/a> against detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys and advocates say the conditions at Adelanto are emblematic of problems throughout an immigration detention system that has come to increasingly rely on firms like GEO to help enforce the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The acting director of ICE, Matthew Albence, \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20190726_100000_FOX__Friends/start/3960/end/4020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> in 2019 that the Adelanto facility is “representative of all our detention centers.” But he disagreed with the criticisms of immigration detention facilities, saying, “They’re safe. They’re humane. They’re secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 40,000 people\u003c/a> are in immigration detention nationwide. Adelanto can house roughly 2,000 detainees and is set to expand under a new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Rebellion’ or Protest? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In their depositions, guards at Adelanto described a hostile situation that threatened to spin out of control because of the detainees’ refusal to return to their bunks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked like — like a rebellion,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584014-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-125-2.html#document/p124/a3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> Sgt. Giovanni Campos, one of the defendants. Commotion from the hunger strikers, he said, was leading other detainees to yell and cause a bigger disturbance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"a spokesperson for GEO Group, which runs the for-profit detention center in Adelanto\"]‘Independent reviews of the incident conducted and commissioned by the federal government found that our employees acted in accordance with established protocols and procedures.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Jane Diaz, another defendant, also referred to the incident as a “rebellion” and said her fellow officers were elbowed by the detainees as the guards tried to move them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were assaulting our staff,” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584015-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-125-3.html#document/p54/a546142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that environment, the guards said, their use of pepper spray was appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they refuse to go to count, if they refuse verbal commands, and they’re disrupting our dorm. … This is why they got sprayed,” Diaz \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584015-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-125-3.html#document/p38/a546084\">said\u003c/a> during a May 2019 deposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, a GEO spokesperson wrote, “GEO strongly rejects the allegations outlined in the lawsuit, which is part of a coordinated effort to undermine immigration policies that our company plays no role in setting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for GEO have also argued that the use of hot water to remove the pepper spray was appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water, which is the method used at the Facility for decontamination purposes, does reactivate the tingling sensation caused by the OC spray,” they argued in one \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584121-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-111.html#document/p17/a549014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legal filing\u003c/a>, “however, it is necessary to remove the spray.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GEO spokesperson also stated, “Independent reviews of the incident conducted and commissioned by the federal government found that our employees acted in accordance with established protocols and procedures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for ICE declined to comment, but an inspector from the Department of Homeland Security who reviewed the incident \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6278922-HQ-Part2-Copy.html#document/p15/a545922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concluded \u003c/a>that the use of pepper spray “was appropriate given the circumstances.” However, the inspector faulted Adelanto for failing to provide cold water when it came time to clean the spray off the detainees, writing that “warm water will exacerbate the burning effect of the OC pepper spray.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘We Wanted to be Heard’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the detainees say that facility staff caused the disturbance by escalating the situation and using more force than necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our clients fled violence and persecution in their home countries, believing they would find safety and security in the United States,” said attorney Rachel Steinback in a statement. “Instead, they were subjected to inhumane treatment at Adelanto — and were violently punished for daring to complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The detainees’ attorneys cited GEO’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584013-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-125-1.html#document/p11/a546074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use-of-force policy\u003c/a>, which considers pepper spray a “major use of force.” According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584013-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-125-1.html#document/p20/a546076\">policy\u003c/a>, officers can only use “major” force when, “Imminent and immediate danger to employees, inmates, or other persons exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The detainees said they were clear with GEO staff that they were starting a “peaceful” hunger strike to get facility supervisors to discuss their complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just wanted to speak and we wanted to be heard,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584015-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-125-3.html#document/p287/a546159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> one of the strikers, Julio Cesar Barahona Cornejo. “At no time did I raise my hands to try to hit them or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their actions, they said, were met with hostility, then physical force, then pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6679945-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-95-Second-Amended.html#document/p6/a546697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit\u003c/a>, one of the detainees broke his nose and had his tooth knocked out after he was pushed into a wall. GEO’s attorneys say it is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6745532-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-132-3.html#document/p39/a547774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">uncertain\u003c/a>” whether the detainee’s nose was broken during the incident, because he didn’t report it to a doctor that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they did to us, you don’t even do that to an animal,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6584016-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-125-4.html#document/p9/a546169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a> another detainee, Josue Vladimir Cortez Diaz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records in the case also raise questions about Lt. Jane Diaz’s record at the facility, including an investigation into a separate pepper spray incident from 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6671213-Rivera-Martinez-v-GEO-Group-151-1.html#document/p2/a546331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declaration\u003c/a> filed by Diaz’s own legal defense mentions “an April 2019 complaint/investigation related to Diaz’s attempt to use chemical agents on a detainee in violation of GEO policy.” According to the legal filing, “GEO personnel found that Diaz obstructed the investigation by not providing complete information to the investigator.” The incident “ultimately led to her termination from GEO,” according to the filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Coleman, an attorney representing Diaz, Campos and GEO, stated in an email to NPR, “We can’t comment on personnel actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Treatment at Adelanto \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Advocates for immigrants say the allegations from the 2017 incident fit a broader pattern of detainee mistreatment at Adelanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Freedom of Information Act, NPR has obtained and examined hundreds of grievances filed by detainees at the facility. Several of those complaints allege threats, mistreatment and verbal abuse by Adelanto staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"adelanto\" label=\"More on Adelanto\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2018, a female detention officer said, “I won’t hesitate to drop all this [sic] dumb bitches off their bunks,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6745408-Adelanto-Grievance-18-0061E.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detainee’s complaint\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How am I safe if she comes angry again?” the detainee wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another detainee \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6745406-Adelanto-Grievance-18-0030W.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complained\u003c/a> that when his family was visiting, a detention officer “mocked me and my family’s English.” When the detainee’s wife spoke to the officer about the comment, the detention officer responded, “Welcome to jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6745407-Adelanto-Grievance-18-0049W-18-0053W.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaints\u003c/a> refer to a guard “harassing” people and saying, “I don’t like Mexicans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of these three cases, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6745459-Pages-From-Adelanto-Grievance-Log.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the records\u003c/a>, GEO found that the complaints were substantiated. But there is no additional information about how the company or ICE addressed these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, GEO said, “Our company took corrective action, including disciplinary action against employees, where appropriate,” but it did not provide specifics on these cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“They Treated Me Worse Than Trash”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinback, from the detainees’ legal team, said she hopes the settlement in this case “emboldens others who are being abused and mistreated to come forward and to expose the horrors that are happening in these private immigration detention centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Isaac Antonio Lopez Castillo\"]‘Not even in my country was I treated as bad as they treated me in the United States.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the outcome, the immigration status for several of the detainees remains in flux. One of them has obtained asylum in the U.S., two had their asylum requests rejected and the five others are still awaiting final decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaac Antonio Lopez Castillo did not receive asylum. He ended up in Tijuana, Mexico, after the incident, where he found work at a hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his deposition, Lopez Castillo said he had sought asylum in the U.S. to escape violence from gangs and police in El Salvador. 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