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The environmental assessment cited a range of environmental hazards, including a leaking sewer system, diesel fuel contamination, asbestos and mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aimee Chavira, who was previously incarcerated at FCI Dublin, said that when she worked in the prison’s safety department, she and other women were told to paint over mold ahead of facility inspections, and that brown water sometimes came out of spigots meant for drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This prison is not livable for anyone, not ICE detention, not immigrants,” she said during Tuesday’s press conference. “Girls started getting sick, I got sick.”[aside postID=news_12082287 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250820-ICEActivity-05_qed.jpg']Dublin’s correctional facility was shut down in April 2024 amid a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064817/after-2-mistrials-in-east-bay-prison-abuse-case-federal-prosecutors-wont-try-again\">sexual abuse scandal\u003c/a>, in which at least eight former staffers, including the former warden and chaplain, have been sentenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the government to say ‘We want another facility or an ICE facility,’ that would mean more issues at hand,” Chavira said. “If our rights were violated under these circumstances, what gives anybody the thought [that] it’s going to change?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump took office in January 2025, ICE has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/04/new-ice-detention-center-mcfarland/\">opened two detention centers\u003c/a> in California — the Central Valley Annex and California City Detention Facility — both on former state prison sites. The president’s landmark “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” last summer provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5674887/ice-budget-funding-congress-trump\">$45 billion to expand ICE detention\u003c/a>, in order to “help ICE law enforcement carry out the largest deportation effort in American history,” an ICE spokesperson said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaty said GSA is actively pursuing additional properties for ICE and has created an “ICE Surge Team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Dublin site is vulnerable because CCIJ believes the agency is specifically targeting Northern California, where there aren’t any active detention centers — the farthest north of California’s eight ICE detention centers is in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE is specifically eyeing Northern California because thanks to many years of successful community organizing, the ICE contracts in the region were ended,” Beaty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070625\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020828446819-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020828446819-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020828446819-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020828446819-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California, right, and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, field questions after a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This limits ICE’s ability to conduct mass enforcement in the region, and it’s part of why we here in the Bay Area have not seen the level of ICE terror that other parts of California have seen,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, California Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, along with East Bay Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> lawmakers are seeking to target the deep pockets of for-profit contractors key to the Trump administration’s growing deportation campaign, amid outrage over the killing of U.S. citizens by federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> agents in Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new state bill would raise taxes on companies that contract with the federal government to run immigration detention facilities, which hold thousands of men and women in California. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1633\">AB-1633\u003c/a>, introduced by Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, on Tuesday, would tax operators’ detention contract revenue by 50% annually and reinvest those funds into services supporting immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-in-the-nation bill aims to mitigate economic, emotional and social harms caused to the state as immigration authorities detain more residents, businesses lose workers and students skip school due to deportation fears, Haney said during a press conference on the bill on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not allow these for-profit corporations to make hundreds of millions of dollars off of human suffering and family separation,” Haney said, flanked by Democratic lawmakers, gubernatorial candidate Tony Thurmond and immigrant advocates. “If you are going to impose this kind of terror on our state and on our people, we are going to tax you for the pain and harm that you’re causing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as the fatal shootings of protesters Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse, and Renee Macklin Good, a mother of three, have\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071018/california-governor-candidates-denounce-ice-at-san-francisco-forum\"> generated intense backlash\u003c/a> in spaces as varied as professional basketball games, social media influencers’ baking feeds and Trump\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5688870\"> voter\u003c/a> surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracts with three private prison companies — Geo Group, CoreCivic and Management & Training Corporation — for about $560 million per year to run detention centers in the state, according to the California Immigrant Policy Center, a bill sponsor. The seven facilities currently jail more than 6,200 immigrants, ICE’s most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management#stats\">figures\u003c/a> show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2240148392-scaled-e1769712035624.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fences and barbed wire surround the CoreCivic Otay Mesa Detention Center on Oct. 4, 2025, in San Diego, California. \u003ccite>(Kevin Carter/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, detainees and immigrant advocates, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-warns-dangerous-conditions-california-city-detention\">California Attorney General,\u003c/a> have reported that the facilities have failed to meet ICE’s own detention standards, with substandard medical care, unsanitary living spaces, inadequate access to food and other serious problems. Last year, 32 people died in ICE custody nationwide, the most in two decades. So far this year, six more detainees have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandra Wilkes, a spokeswoman for the Day 1 Alliance — a trade organization representing Geo Group, CoreCivic and MTC — declined to comment on the new proposed tax, but defended the companies’ records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For more than 30 years, contractors have partnered with both Democratic and Republican administrations to provide vital services at their request, including safe, humane housing, quality medical and mental health care, and respectful, dignified care for individuals navigating the U.S. immigration system,” Wilkes said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the contractors’ critical services, she added, more immigrants would likely be held in overcrowded local jails, alongside potentially dangerous individuals.[aside postID=news_12069688 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/KernCountyICEDetentionGetty.jpg']“Contractors do not make arrests, do not decide the length of detention, and play no role in determining the legal status of individuals in their care,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under President Donald Trump, the federal government approved last summer an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">$170 billion\u003c/a> over four years for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, Border Patrol and other agencies. Those funds include $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers and $30 billion to boost enforcement and deportation operations. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">Senate is now considering\u003c/a> a House-approved package that would send additional funding to DHS. The measure is largely opposed by Democrats, who are demanding more guardrails for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Woo, a Bay Area community organizer, said her elderly family members were apprehended by ICE during their final interview to apply for permanent residency, after 20 years of living in the U.S. They were locked up in the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062774/conditions-at-massive-new-california-immigration-facility-are-alarming-report-finds\">largest and newest detention center\u003c/a> in the Mojave Desert, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Words cannot describe what visceral pain of seeing your elder relative who immigrated to this country to build a better life for our family, break down crying behind a glass screen window where it’s impossible to hug them and hold their hand,” said Woo, who works at the nonprofit Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network. “No one deserves to experience the same inhumane pain, suffering, and loneliness that my loved one felt every day in that prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislation previously tried to phase out all for-profit prisons and private detention facilities, but was blocked by the courts. 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California’s corporate income tax is 8.84% on profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they look at this tax and they say, ‘That’s too high for us to pay,’ then they can leave,” Haney said. “And certainly, we’re not going to shed any tears if that’s the outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States may not impose taxes directly on the federal government, but can tax the income of federal employees and contractors. In addition, taxes are often targeted to activities perceived as causing social harm to discourage the taxpayer from creating additional harm or to mitigate it, said UC Davis law professor Darien Shanske, who teaches tax law.[aside postID=news_12071374 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-1.jpg']“You can use the tax system to express values. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s U.S. senators expressed grave concerns about conditions at the state’s newest and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">largest immigration jail\u003c/a>, and said they will not support an upcoming bill to further increase funding for immigration enforcement, after a visit on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff spent four hours inside the California City Detention Facility, a privately-owned former prison about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, where they met with the warden and spoke with a number of detained immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came away with stories of people in detention struggling to access health care for serious conditions — including a diabetic woman who was denied her medication for two months, Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” he added. “That’s frightening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigration detention facility, owned and operated by the private, for-profit prison company CoreCivic, currently holds about 1,400 people, the senators said, but it has a capacity for 2,560 detainees. It opened in late August, under a two-year, $130 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The detainee population has grown steadily, and \u003ca href=\"https://ir.corecivic.com/node/24926/pdf\">CoreCivic has said \u003c/a>it expects to fill the place early this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Alex Padilla, on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previously, California leased the facility for use as a state prison, until ending its contract in 2024 as state efforts reduced the incarcerated population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While much attention has been focused on the Trump administration’s increasingly violent deployment of ICE officers in American cities, the conditions inside ICE detention facilities are a hidden side of the immigration crackdown, Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These indiscriminate immigration raids — the heartbreak, the families separated from one another, the loss of life, as we saw in Minneapolis — that’s one trauma. When you walk inside these walls, you experience a different trauma,” he said. “I am most particularly concerned about the medical issue, because that can be life or death.”[aside postID=news_12069782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg']Deaths in detention continue to rise. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\">32 people \u003c/a>died in ICE facilities, a level not seen in more than two decades. And in just the first three weeks of 2026, ICE has reported that six more people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla noted that immigration detention is a form of civil detention, typically used to hold people while their deportation cases play out in immigration court. It is not intended as a punishment for a crime and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">ICE itself defines \u003c/a>the custody as “non-punitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the deficient conditions — including adequate nutrition, medical attention and mental health care — add up to a punishing environment, the senator said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m leaving here even more concerned than I was when I arrived,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Todd, a spokesman for CoreCivic, rejected charges of inadequate food, water, blankets and other basics. 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Ro Khanna described what he called the “systemic neglect” of more than 900 people currently held at the California City Detention Facility, a private prison in the Mojave Desert, which opened in late August under a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re treating these people like animals, not like human beings … It’s an embarrassment for the country,” he told KQED. “Whatever you think about the consequences for people who are undocumented, we should all agree that you treat people with dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna’s visit comes at a time when ICE is locking up more people than ever in its history — roughly 69,000 as of late December — as the Trump administration continues its massive ramp-up in immigration enforcement as part of an aggressive campaign to deport millions of non-citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have raised alarms over poor conditions in ICE detention as the number of in-custody deaths\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\"> surged\u003c/a> to its highest level in more than 20 years, with 32 people dying in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress has a legal right to inspect immigration detention centers, even unannounced. 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No prison staff was present in the meetings, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the tour, [the warden and other prison officials] were showing us they were going by the book, and they took standards really seriously,” he said. “Then when we met the detainees, I was just floored.”[aside postID=news_12068663 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260105-VenezuelaCalifornia-06-BL_qed.jpg']Khanna said he spoke with a man who said he had blood in his urine and was still waiting for medical care after seven days. He said people described rocks in their food, undrinkable water, punishing lockdowns four times a day and no-contact visits with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really dehumanizing, and many of them were in tears,” he said. “Some of them had been in this country for over a decade, paying taxes, and they’re just shocked that they had been sent to this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna said he was particularly alarmed by the lack of medical care. On the day he visited, he said, he saw only one doctor handling a clinic waiting room filled with roughly 40 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic, the company that owns and operates the facility, said the safety and health of people in its custody is its top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility employs licensed health care providers, who “[take] seriously their role and responsibility to provide high-quality healthcare, available 24/7, to the individuals in our care,” said CoreCivic public affairs director Ryan Gustin, in a statement emailed to KQED. “Our health services teams follow both CoreCivic’s standards for medical care and the standards set forth by our government partners. All individuals have daily access to sign up for medical care, including mental health services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin added that the company’s immigration facilities are closely monitored by ICE and required to undergo regular reviews and audits “to ensure an appropriate standard of living and care for all detainees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic Inc. 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The group found that conditions at the detention center were dangerous for disabled people and that health care access was broadly lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, immigrant rights organizations filed a lawsuit alleging that CoreCivic began operating the ICE facility without first obtaining state and local permits. Then, in November, detainees at the facility\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/11/ice-california-city-detainee-lawsuit/\"> sued\u003c/a>, alleging the place is polluted by sewage leaks and insect infestations, and that detainees can’t get proper medical attention for life-threatening conditions.[aside postID=news_12069104 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty.jpg']Last month, the California Attorney General’s office sent out its own inspection team, as mandated under state law, and then \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-warns-dangerous-conditions-california-city-detention\">issued \u003c/a>a sharply worded letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, calling out “dangerous and inadequate living conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta said the facility had “opened prematurely and was not prepared to handle the needs of the incoming population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s $130 million two-year contract with CoreCivic for the California City facility — formerly used as a state prison but vacant since 2023 — was enabled by Congress’s passage last summer of a budget bill that included $170 billion for President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement priorities — including $45 billion specifically for detention facilities. Analysts estimate the money could allow for as many as 116,000 detention beds. By comparison, ICE held about 39,000 people in the final days of the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna said he decided to see the inside of the facility for himself after residents in his Santa Clara County district expressed concern for loved ones who were held there. The lawmaker said he wants more of Congress to visit detention centers and hold ICE accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think more members need to go in,” he said. “Get access to these facilities and talk to the detainees. And then we need to tell their stories. That’s our job in oversight. I did it because my constituents faced it, and I’m really glad I did and horrified to see what I discovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And the agency’s budget \u003ca href=\"https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2026/FY2026_Budget_Request_Overview_Book.pdf\">request\u003c/a> for fiscal year 2026 indicated plans to spend an additional $5 billion on southern border operations alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also highlighted the Pentagon’s commitment to spend:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$250 million to deploy troops in U.S. cities, aiding immigration operations\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$420 million for detention operations on military bases, including Guantanamo\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$55 million to reassign military lawyers as immigration judges\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$40 million for air transport of detainees, including deportation flights\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“What is clear is that the public can expect DoD to spend billions more on immigration enforcement in the near future,” the report stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats called the diversion of funds a waste of taxpayer resources and “baffling,” in light of the Republican-controlled Congress’s unprecedented $170 billion allocation to the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year.\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, on March 16, 2017. \u003ccite>(Hum Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, Garamendi has strenuously resisted the Pentagon’s use of military aircraft for deportation flights, the use of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for immigration detention, and a proposal — first reported by KQED — to build \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037889/trump-administration-considers-immigration-detention-bay-area-military-base-records-show\">an immigration detention center at Travis\u003c/a>. After he and North Bay Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson raised questions, Garamendi said military officials told them the plan had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055651/trump-administrations-plans-for-ice-detention-on-bay-area-military-base-are-on-hold\">put on hold\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawmaker also said he believes redirecting troops to immigration efforts at the border and in cities such as Los Angeles is a violation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066202/california-renews-push-to-bring-national-guard-back-under-newsoms-command\">the Posse Comitatus Act\u003c/a>, an 1878 law that limits the use of military personnel to police domestic laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we’ve learned about the Trump administration is they don’t much care what the law is. They simply will do what they want to do, regardless of the law. It’s kind of like, ‘catch me if you can,’” he said\u003cem>.\u003c/em> “We’re gonna call it out. We’re gonna say it’s illegal. It’s the use of the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.”[aside postID=news_12066492 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240212-ImmigrationCourt-31-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']The Defense Department has not addressed the question of legality. But in a statement, Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson affirmed that the Pentagon is committing resources to immigration efforts. With a nearly $1 trillion defense budget, there’s plenty of money to go around, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Operations with the Department of Homeland Security wouldn’t be necessary if Joe Biden didn’t turn the Southern Border into a national security threat, but this administration is proud to fix the problem Democrats started,” she said. “Spending allocated money on one mission does not mean other missions become depleted. That’s ludicrous and just plain stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 9 \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/cover_letter_to_pentagon_on_immigration_deployment_costs_report.pdf\">letter\u003c/a>, the Democrats shared the report with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and asked a series of pointed questions about how the military funds are being used. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland-based attorneys pushing back against the Trump administration in federal court raised alarms as they said they have evidence of children being held for weeks in prison-like conditions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/customs-and-border-protection\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection\u003c/a> custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a federal judge is reaffirming those allegations and upholding the federal government’s responsibility to process detained immigrant children as expeditiously as possible. The ruling comes after the Trump administration again sought to end a settlement requiring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982020/judge-rules-border-patrol-must-care-for-migrant-children-waiting-in-open-air-camps\">humane treatment of children in federal custody\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee on Friday rejected the administration’s bid to throw out the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, which requires the government to transfer detained children to a guardian or a licensed facility within three days. Gee’s ruling, which she also enforced in a Monday motion, requires that the government also improve the current conditions of facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge recognized that the conditions that are currently in CBP custody are unacceptable for kids to be held in for any length of time,” said Becky Wolozin, a senior attorney at the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland, one of the plaintiffs working to uphold the settlement terms. “She continues to recognize that children deserve at least the bare minimum in terms of humanitarian conditions and dignity if the government chooses to hold them in detention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration in May moved to terminate the Flores settlement, saying it was not necessary because the government had already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769437/whats-in-new-trump-immigration-rule-overriding-flores-agreement-3-key-changes\">put in place such policies\u003c/a>. The agreement had actually “ossified immigration policy,” the administration argued in its motion, by increasing the number of children entering the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1696\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-2048x1357.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167160569-1920x1272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security near Coronado National Memorial in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, on Aug. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agreement has “changed the immigration landscape by removing some of the disincentives for families to enter the U.S. unlawfully,” the administration said in the motion. “Unlawful family migration barely existed in 1997.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs fired back against the administration, moving for the court to enforce the longstanding agreement and arguing that the government violated the agreement because it had kept children at border stations for weeks to months in poor conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee, however, said it appeared that the government was trying to reduce the amount of time children may be held at a Border Patrol station. In the most recent report by the CBP’s juvenile coordinator that tracks time in custody, the average time detained at family facilities had decreased in the last few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This indicates that CBP is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it,” Gee said.[aside postID=news_12026817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2197914000-1020x680.jpg']Still, the judge said current times in custody are too long, Wolozin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was very clear that weeks, months in these facilities is a blatant violation of the settlement agreement and the children’s basic rights,” Wolozin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769455/lengthy-detention-of-migrant-children-may-create-lasting-trauma-say-researchers\">Children in CBP detention\u003c/a> sometimes don’t see the sun “for days at a time” and talk about being very cold and separated from their families, Wolozin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional families say that detention facilities sometimes lack the ability to flush toilets, provide infrequent showers for children and have inadequate access to medical care, according to claims by individuals in detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This underscores precisely why the prolonged times in CBP custody remain a significant problem,” Gee said in her ruling enforcing the agreement. “CBP facilities, by design, are not suitable for minors for long periods of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump first tried to do away with the settlement during his first term before Gee blocked the changes. The Department of Homeland Security asked in 2018 to exempt it from provisions regarding release and exempt U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s family facilities from the agreement’s state license requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time children reach these facilities, Wolozin said, they are at the end of an already “difficult, traumatic journey” where they’re often fleeing violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re placed in these restrictive settings that don’t treat them like children but instead treat them like criminals, it compounds all of the harms they’re trying to escape,” Wolozin said. “It also causes them to stay in this really heightened sense of anxiety and awareness of their surroundings — sort of a hypervigilance — that is really bad for children and their bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tychehendricks\">\u003cem>Tyche Hendricks\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The woman’s story is summarized only briefly in the document that seals her impending deportation: After she inadvertently witnessed an extrajudicial killing by members of the Ethiopian military, she was imprisoned and beaten for more than a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was only the beginning. The witness — as the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> has chosen to call her after she asked not to be named due to safety concerns for herself and her family — fled Ethiopia and made her way to Mexico. She was planning to ask for protection in the United States. But by the time she made it to the banks of the Rio Grande, her options had narrowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>, on the day he was inaugurated for the second time, had declared that anyone trying to cross the southern border without prior authorization was part of an “invasion.” The order suspended their right to apply for asylum at the border. So the witness swam across the river to Texas, where she sought out Border Patrol agents to ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn’t know it, but there was still a way to avoid being sent home — a narrow form of protection, called the United Nations Convention Against Torture, that applies to people whose governments could torture them or allow them to be tortured. CAT is harder to qualify for than asylum and doesn’t come with the same benefits, like a path to citizenship and the possibility of bringing her family to the U.S. as well. It would, however, stop her from being deported to Ethiopia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under the president’s order, nearly all of her rights as a CAT applicant — such as the right to bring a lawyer to interviews with asylum officers and to appeal denials — had been quietly and deliberately erased, and what remains of the process now takes place under a veil of secrecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to federal guidance produced in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5285543/aclu-trump-lawsuit-asylum-ban-southern-border-january\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, a new report by two prominent human rights organizations, and independent reporting by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, including nearly a dozen interviews with immigration attorneys and immigrants’ rights advocates around the country, as well as a former asylum officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has declined to answer the\u003cem> California Newsroom’s\u003c/em> questions about the witness’s case or how the asylum system — in particular the process of applying for protection under the Convention Against Torture — is currently working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the changes in practice appear to mean that, for thousands of people fleeing or trying to avoid torture by their own governments, the process of applying for humanitarian protection in the U.S. provides little more than false hope. And its dismantling has been so well hidden that immigration attorneys are only just now starting to catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginger Jacobs, a senior partner at the San Diego firm that represents the witness, worries that many people who have legitimate claims to humanitarian protection could end up casualties of the Trump administration’s zeal to effect mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger is that it’s another way to disappear people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘There’s nothing you can do’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before they can go before an immigration judge to formally plead their cases, applicants for CAT protection must first convince an asylum officer with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that their fear of torture is credible. For her interview on April 27, the witness spoke with the officer by phone. She sat alone in a tiny booth in the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a massive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility outside San Diego, where she has been detained since early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, the witness was handed the two-page document containing the short summary of what she’d told the asylum officer. A box on the document had been checked to indicate that her story was credible. But further down, another checked box indicated that the witness “did not establish it is more likely than not that she will be tortured in Ethiopia.” There was no explanation of the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12041513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1321\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3.png 1321w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-800x104.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-1020x132.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-160x21.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1321px) 100vw, 1321px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041512\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1355\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2.jpg 1355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-800x107.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-1020x136.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-160x21.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1355px) 100vw, 1355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the witness’s account of torture by the Ethiopian government was credible, but still determined she could be deported back to her country. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson, Jacobs & Schlesinger LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before Jan. 20, that determination could only have been made in court by an immigration judge. Now, that single checkmark, made by an official whom the witness never saw, is the final and uncontestable decision that will send her back to the government that she believes will imprison and torture her, or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her deportation officer just said, there’s nothing you can do,” said Sydney Johnson, who became the witness’s attorney after the decision was made, referring to the ICE official in charge of arranging the witness’s return to Ethiopia. (Johnson requested that her client not be interviewed directly because ICE records detainee phone calls.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had the witness arrived in the U.S. before Trump signed his executive order, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion/\">Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion,”\u003c/a> she would have been given time to find a lawyer before the interview, and been allowed to have the lawyer present on the call. She would have received detailed documentation of how the asylum officer made the decision, and had the right to ask an immigration judge to review and possibly overturn it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, new \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/gov.uscourts.dcd_.277039.52.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal guidance\u003c/a> for asylum officers, submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice in the ACLU lawsuit, clarifies that those rights no longer exist. In addition to claiming that the president’s suspension of asylum is illegal, the ACLU complaint specifies that his order is “depriving noncitizens of a meaningful opportunity to present CAT claims.”\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=news_12038128 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-21-1020x680.jpg']A \u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ThisIsAnOrderFromTrumpReport_final1.pdf\">report published in early May\u003c/a> by researchers with Human Rights First and Refugees International calls screenings for CAT applicants a “sham” that is now being used to fast-track deportations. Some who have asked for humanitarian protection at the U.S.-Mexico border are not even granted interviews like the one the witness had, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys say that also includes screenings for a form of protection, similar to CAT, called “withholding of removal,” which applies to people who have been threatened or persecuted but are not facing torture. (It’s why the U.S. government was not supposed to send \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347427/maryland-el-salvador-error\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia\u003c/a> back to El Salvador.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both withholding of removal and CAT are enshrined in international law, and are not up for interpretation by U.S. officials, said Jennifer Scarborough, an immigration attorney who focuses on detained clients at the border and around the country. “Withholding is not discretionary,” she said. “The law says that if you meet those requirements, then the government may not deport you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the government isn’t screening people for withholding of removal, Scarborough said, it has no way of knowing whether they meet the requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS has \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/semi-monthly-credible-fear-and-reasonable-fear-receipts-and-decisions\">stopped publishing semi-monthly data\u003c/a> about screenings, making it difficult to determine how many people have been denied access to protection since the new rules went into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s such a terrifying situation,” said Jennifer Babaie, director of legal services at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas. The organization is a plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former USCIS asylum officer who routinely conducted screening interviews called the new system “an erosion of due process and these people’s rights.” The person asked not to be named due to fear of reprisal from the current administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By removing these checks and balances that protect the rights of immigrants, the former asylum officer said, “the Trump administration is behaving in the same way as those governments we offer protection from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A farce by design’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The night before her phone screening with the asylum officer, the witness had been ill. A chronic medical condition had flared up, and that morning, she was groggy and lethargic after ICE doctors increased the dosage of her medication. She had a splitting headache. According to Johnson, her attorney, the witness said the asylum officer did not ask if she felt up to the screening interview, and the witness didn’t think she had the option to reschedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness told Johnson the interview lasted two hours. Twice, as she told the asylum officer her story — how prison guards had touched her breasts and taunted her as they beat her, how they poured water on her when she urinated on herself — the Amharic interpreter, who had been patched into the call, suddenly dropped off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the second time, toward the end of the call, the interpreter didn’t come back. The witness said she could continue in English as long as the asylum officer spoke slowly. She told Johnson that throughout the entire screening, the officer asked only “yes” or “no” questions. When the officer finally read back a summary, details were missing, but the witness said she was not allowed to add anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the current guidance under Trump’s order, “at the end of the interview, the AO [Asylum Officer] must review the summary with the individual and give him or her an opportunity to correct errors.” Officers also have the option to reschedule the interview if needed, including if the applicant doesn’t feel well or is having trouble communicating. In fact, officers were previously required to ask whether an applicant felt well enough to be interviewed, and “should avoid communicating” without an interpreter, according to internal USCIS documents reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-800x475.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1536x912.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1920x1140.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guidance for asylum officers issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in late January, after President Donald Trump’s executive order. \u003ccite>(Public filing in RAICES v. Noem)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Training documents also recommend that asylum officers cross-check applicants’ fear claims with contextual information about the conditions in their countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While USCIS has declined to provide documentation of the information used to make the decision in the witness’s case, local reporting shows that since 2018, Ethiopia has been embroiled in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-amhara-fano-insurgency-rebels-6108686ebbffee1458f71269380346fc\">ethnically charged fighting\u003c/a> between the government and armed militias. An April 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://upr-info.org/sites/default/files/country-document/2025-04/JS23_UPR47_Ethiopia.pdf\">joint report\u003c/a> from the World Organisation Against Torture and the Ethiopian Human Rights Council says that “enforced disappearance and torture” by government forces and other militant groups are “rampant in most parts of the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/ethiopia/\">U.S. State Department report\u003c/a> on humans rights practices in Ethiopia, published in 2023, cites “credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> has omitted some details of the witness’s experience and background to protect her and her family.[aside postID=news_12038327 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-1020x680.jpg']Johnson said she thinks her client’s illness, along with the incomplete translation, likely muddied what should have been an open-and-shut CAT case. She asked ICE to refer the witness back to USCIS for another interview when the witness felt well enough and proper translation was available. In an email reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, an ICE officer wrote that the witness is “not eligible” for a second interview, because she’d already had one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the asylum officer’s decision was final, and under the new rules, there was no way to appeal it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for immigrants say there are further signs that the screening process is deteriorating as applicants’ attorneys and judges have been sidelined. Natalie Cadwalader-Schultheis, a San Diego-based attorney with Human Rights First, said screenings used to take anywhere from half an hour to four hours. She now has clients who say their interviews lasted as little as five minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to her organization’s new report, “these torture screenings are a farce by design.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also highlights a trend that alarms human rights watchdogs. Some asylum seekers at the border told the researchers that their requests for humanitarian protection were ignored. “In some instances, officers told [asylum seekers] they were being transported to other facilities where they would have asylum interviews, only to be taken to staging areas for their removal,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Newsroom asked DHS about the report’s findings, including the specific anecdotes it cites, and received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one testimonial from the report, a Russian woman refused to board a government flight to Costa Rica, demanding to know why she was being deported. According to the report, officers “falsely stated that there had been a court decision and told her she should just go quietly so as not to traumatize her children, who were crying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s too quiet’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both ICE and USCIS have refused to give the witness any further documents related to her interview, according to Johnson. In one email to Johnson, reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, USCIS implied that either the interview did not happen or that the agency doesn’t have to share the records with detainees’ lawyers. “The whole thing is just this incredibly frustrating cycle where nobody can tell me anything,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the witness asked to see the detailed notes from her interview, which asylum officers are required to take, an ICE officer suggested she file a Freedom of Information Act request, or FOIA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told about this suggestion, Scarborough, a veteran immigration attorney, called it “stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know how long it takes to get a FOIA response? Two to three months,” she said. “You know what’s going to happen in two to three months? Your client’s going to be deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> spoke with several immigration attorneys around the country who say they’re being stonewalled in similar ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CAT application process has been disappeared from us,” Cadwalader-Schultheis said. “It’s happening absolutely in secret, and they don’t want us understanding how it works. If we did, I think it would be very apparent just how illegal and how much of a sham this whole thing is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the asylum-focused attorneys the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> spoke with convene a weekly phone call to compare cases and try to piece together the administration’s new rules amidst a gaping lack of transparency. “We’re all just trying to figure it out in real time,” said Babaie, the Texas legal services director, who participates in the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group seems to be at the bleeding edge of an unfolding situation that even most immigration lawyers have not yet realized, just as even the savviest experts took months to catch on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/\">Trump’s family separation policy in 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess Feldman, an immigration attorney who directs Southwestern Law School’s Asylum Law Clinic, said she suspects CAT applicants are being rushed through the screening process, if they get one, then being deported quickly. Because the Trump administration has done away with a “consultation period” that previously allowed applicants to contact an attorney before their screening, she thinks many applicants may not be reaching out to lawyers at all. “It’s just silent,” she said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not a problem. In fact, it’s too quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 90 days,” she said, “I think we’ll look back and say, how did we not know this was happening in May?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’re going to know she’s there’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what high-level immigration officials actually know about recent changes to humanitarian protection. In response to questions from the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> about what is currently happening when detained migrants express fear of returning to their countries, Matthew Tragesser, the public affairs chief at USCIS, provided links to several websites that don’t reflect the new rules, including that judges no longer review screening decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USCIS did not answer specific questions about the discrepancy, and why public websites that contain outdated information are still online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its class-action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the ACLU argues that the president does not have the power to broadly suspend protections laid out in law by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge hearing the case rules to suspend the president’s executive order, thousands of asylum seekers could be allowed to stay in the country until they can apply for protection in immigration court. Those like the witness, who have already failed screenings under the order, would be allowed a do-over. But this time, they could have their lawyers present, and they’d have the right to appeal negative decisions.[aside postID=news_12037889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-1020x602.jpg']In the meantime, the witness has told Johnson that other detainees at Otay Mesa have also failed their CAT screenings — and that some have disappeared in the middle of the night. The witness said she doesn’t know whether they have been moved to other facilities or deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials did not respond to questions from the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> about when the witness will be deported. Johnson said ICE told her that the witness will be sent home as soon as the Ethiopian government provides her passport and a flight can be arranged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs, who has been advising Johnson on the case, said that even by requesting the witness’s travel documents, ICE is putting her in danger. Once she arrives in Ethiopia, Jacobs said, “They’re going to know she’s there. I don’t see how she escapes from just being sent straight back to detention or prison, where she will be tortured again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Johnson filed a request for an administrative stay, essentially asking ICE not to deport the witness until the ACLU lawsuit is resolved, and also requested that she be released from detention so that she can get proper medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johnson, the witness believes that if she is sent back to her country, Ethiopian officials will kill her. “She told me she would rather die here than return to die in Ethiopia,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness’s cousin, a U.S. citizen who lives in California, said he knows her as a smart, kind woman who is always easy to talk to. Now, when she calls him from detention, she sounds subdued, nervous and scared. The cousin asked to be referred to only as Negash, his middle name, out of fear that the Ethiopian government would harm him if he were to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negash said he was shocked to learn that the witness was denied the opportunity to make her case before a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my country,” he said, referring to the United States. “It’s the best country in the world. How are we going to send her to die over there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a collaboration of public media outlets throughout the state, with NPR as its national partner.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anna Sussman contributed to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under the president’s order, nearly all of her rights as a CAT applicant — such as the right to bring a lawyer to interviews with asylum officers and to appeal denials — had been quietly and deliberately erased, and what remains of the process now takes place under a veil of secrecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to federal guidance produced in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5285543/aclu-trump-lawsuit-asylum-ban-southern-border-january\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, a new report by two prominent human rights organizations, and independent reporting by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, including nearly a dozen interviews with immigration attorneys and immigrants’ rights advocates around the country, as well as a former asylum officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has declined to answer the\u003cem> California Newsroom’s\u003c/em> questions about the witness’s case or how the asylum system — in particular the process of applying for protection under the Convention Against Torture — is currently working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the changes in practice appear to mean that, for thousands of people fleeing or trying to avoid torture by their own governments, the process of applying for humanitarian protection in the U.S. provides little more than false hope. And its dismantling has been so well hidden that immigration attorneys are only just now starting to catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginger Jacobs, a senior partner at the San Diego firm that represents the witness, worries that many people who have legitimate claims to humanitarian protection could end up casualties of the Trump administration’s zeal to effect mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger is that it’s another way to disappear people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘There’s nothing you can do’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before they can go before an immigration judge to formally plead their cases, applicants for CAT protection must first convince an asylum officer with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that their fear of torture is credible. For her interview on April 27, the witness spoke with the officer by phone. She sat alone in a tiny booth in the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a massive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility outside San Diego, where she has been detained since early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, the witness was handed the two-page document containing the short summary of what she’d told the asylum officer. A box on the document had been checked to indicate that her story was credible. But further down, another checked box indicated that the witness “did not establish it is more likely than not that she will be tortured in Ethiopia.” There was no explanation of the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12041513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1321\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3.png 1321w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-800x104.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-1020x132.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-160x21.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1321px) 100vw, 1321px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041512\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1355\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2.jpg 1355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-800x107.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-1020x136.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-160x21.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1355px) 100vw, 1355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the witness’s account of torture by the Ethiopian government was credible, but still determined she could be deported back to her country. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson, Jacobs & Schlesinger LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before Jan. 20, that determination could only have been made in court by an immigration judge. Now, that single checkmark, made by an official whom the witness never saw, is the final and uncontestable decision that will send her back to the government that she believes will imprison and torture her, or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her deportation officer just said, there’s nothing you can do,” said Sydney Johnson, who became the witness’s attorney after the decision was made, referring to the ICE official in charge of arranging the witness’s return to Ethiopia. (Johnson requested that her client not be interviewed directly because ICE records detainee phone calls.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had the witness arrived in the U.S. before Trump signed his executive order, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion/\">Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion,”\u003c/a> she would have been given time to find a lawyer before the interview, and been allowed to have the lawyer present on the call. 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(It’s why the U.S. government was not supposed to send \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347427/maryland-el-salvador-error\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia\u003c/a> back to El Salvador.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both withholding of removal and CAT are enshrined in international law, and are not up for interpretation by U.S. officials, said Jennifer Scarborough, an immigration attorney who focuses on detained clients at the border and around the country. “Withholding is not discretionary,” she said. “The law says that if you meet those requirements, then the government may not deport you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the government isn’t screening people for withholding of removal, Scarborough said, it has no way of knowing whether they meet the requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS has \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/semi-monthly-credible-fear-and-reasonable-fear-receipts-and-decisions\">stopped publishing semi-monthly data\u003c/a> about screenings, making it difficult to determine how many people have been denied access to protection since the new rules went into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s such a terrifying situation,” said Jennifer Babaie, director of legal services at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas. The organization is a plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former USCIS asylum officer who routinely conducted screening interviews called the new system “an erosion of due process and these people’s rights.” The person asked not to be named due to fear of reprisal from the current administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By removing these checks and balances that protect the rights of immigrants, the former asylum officer said, “the Trump administration is behaving in the same way as those governments we offer protection from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A farce by design’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The night before her phone screening with the asylum officer, the witness had been ill. A chronic medical condition had flared up, and that morning, she was groggy and lethargic after ICE doctors increased the dosage of her medication. She had a splitting headache. According to Johnson, her attorney, the witness said the asylum officer did not ask if she felt up to the screening interview, and the witness didn’t think she had the option to reschedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness told Johnson the interview lasted two hours. Twice, as she told the asylum officer her story — how prison guards had touched her breasts and taunted her as they beat her, how they poured water on her when she urinated on herself — the Amharic interpreter, who had been patched into the call, suddenly dropped off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the second time, toward the end of the call, the interpreter didn’t come back. The witness said she could continue in English as long as the asylum officer spoke slowly. She told Johnson that throughout the entire screening, the officer asked only “yes” or “no” questions. When the officer finally read back a summary, details were missing, but the witness said she was not allowed to add anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the current guidance under Trump’s order, “at the end of the interview, the AO [Asylum Officer] must review the summary with the individual and give him or her an opportunity to correct errors.” Officers also have the option to reschedule the interview if needed, including if the applicant doesn’t feel well or is having trouble communicating. In fact, officers were previously required to ask whether an applicant felt well enough to be interviewed, and “should avoid communicating” without an interpreter, according to internal USCIS documents reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-800x475.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1536x912.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1920x1140.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guidance for asylum officers issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in late January, after President Donald Trump’s executive order. \u003ccite>(Public filing in RAICES v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Johnson said she thinks her client’s illness, along with the incomplete translation, likely muddied what should have been an open-and-shut CAT case. She asked ICE to refer the witness back to USCIS for another interview when the witness felt well enough and proper translation was available. In an email reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, an ICE officer wrote that the witness is “not eligible” for a second interview, because she’d already had one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the asylum officer’s decision was final, and under the new rules, there was no way to appeal it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for immigrants say there are further signs that the screening process is deteriorating as applicants’ attorneys and judges have been sidelined. Natalie Cadwalader-Schultheis, a San Diego-based attorney with Human Rights First, said screenings used to take anywhere from half an hour to four hours. She now has clients who say their interviews lasted as little as five minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to her organization’s new report, “these torture screenings are a farce by design.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also highlights a trend that alarms human rights watchdogs. Some asylum seekers at the border told the researchers that their requests for humanitarian protection were ignored. “In some instances, officers told [asylum seekers] they were being transported to other facilities where they would have asylum interviews, only to be taken to staging areas for their removal,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Newsroom asked DHS about the report’s findings, including the specific anecdotes it cites, and received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one testimonial from the report, a Russian woman refused to board a government flight to Costa Rica, demanding to know why she was being deported. According to the report, officers “falsely stated that there had been a court decision and told her she should just go quietly so as not to traumatize her children, who were crying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s too quiet’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both ICE and USCIS have refused to give the witness any further documents related to her interview, according to Johnson. In one email to Johnson, reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, USCIS implied that either the interview did not happen or that the agency doesn’t have to share the records with detainees’ lawyers. “The whole thing is just this incredibly frustrating cycle where nobody can tell me anything,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the witness asked to see the detailed notes from her interview, which asylum officers are required to take, an ICE officer suggested she file a Freedom of Information Act request, or FOIA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told about this suggestion, Scarborough, a veteran immigration attorney, called it “stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know how long it takes to get a FOIA response? Two to three months,” she said. “You know what’s going to happen in two to three months? Your client’s going to be deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> spoke with several immigration attorneys around the country who say they’re being stonewalled in similar ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CAT application process has been disappeared from us,” Cadwalader-Schultheis said. “It’s happening absolutely in secret, and they don’t want us understanding how it works. If we did, I think it would be very apparent just how illegal and how much of a sham this whole thing is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the asylum-focused attorneys the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> spoke with convene a weekly phone call to compare cases and try to piece together the administration’s new rules amidst a gaping lack of transparency. “We’re all just trying to figure it out in real time,” said Babaie, the Texas legal services director, who participates in the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group seems to be at the bleeding edge of an unfolding situation that even most immigration lawyers have not yet realized, just as even the savviest experts took months to catch on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/\">Trump’s family separation policy in 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess Feldman, an immigration attorney who directs Southwestern Law School’s Asylum Law Clinic, said she suspects CAT applicants are being rushed through the screening process, if they get one, then being deported quickly. Because the Trump administration has done away with a “consultation period” that previously allowed applicants to contact an attorney before their screening, she thinks many applicants may not be reaching out to lawyers at all. “It’s just silent,” she said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not a problem. In fact, it’s too quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 90 days,” she said, “I think we’ll look back and say, how did we not know this was happening in May?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’re going to know she’s there’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what high-level immigration officials actually know about recent changes to humanitarian protection. In response to questions from the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> about what is currently happening when detained migrants express fear of returning to their countries, Matthew Tragesser, the public affairs chief at USCIS, provided links to several websites that don’t reflect the new rules, including that judges no longer review screening decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USCIS did not answer specific questions about the discrepancy, and why public websites that contain outdated information are still online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its class-action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the ACLU argues that the president does not have the power to broadly suspend protections laid out in law by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge hearing the case rules to suspend the president’s executive order, thousands of asylum seekers could be allowed to stay in the country until they can apply for protection in immigration court. Those like the witness, who have already failed screenings under the order, would be allowed a do-over. But this time, they could have their lawyers present, and they’d have the right to appeal negative decisions.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the meantime, the witness has told Johnson that other detainees at Otay Mesa have also failed their CAT screenings — and that some have disappeared in the middle of the night. The witness said she doesn’t know whether they have been moved to other facilities or deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials did not respond to questions from the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> about when the witness will be deported. Johnson said ICE told her that the witness will be sent home as soon as the Ethiopian government provides her passport and a flight can be arranged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs, who has been advising Johnson on the case, said that even by requesting the witness’s travel documents, ICE is putting her in danger. Once she arrives in Ethiopia, Jacobs said, “They’re going to know she’s there. I don’t see how she escapes from just being sent straight back to detention or prison, where she will be tortured again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Johnson filed a request for an administrative stay, essentially asking ICE not to deport the witness until the ACLU lawsuit is resolved, and also requested that she be released from detention so that she can get proper medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johnson, the witness believes that if she is sent back to her country, Ethiopian officials will kill her. “She told me she would rather die here than return to die in Ethiopia,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness’s cousin, a U.S. citizen who lives in California, said he knows her as a smart, kind woman who is always easy to talk to. Now, when she calls him from detention, she sounds subdued, nervous and scared. The cousin asked to be referred to only as Negash, his middle name, out of fear that the Ethiopian government would harm him if he were to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negash said he was shocked to learn that the witness was denied the opportunity to make her case before a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my country,” he said, referring to the United States. “It’s the best country in the world. How are we going to send her to die over there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a collaboration of public media outlets throughout the state, with NPR as its national partner.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anna Sussman contributed to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a move Bay Area immigrant advocates say is a first, federal immigration agents are conducting enforcement operations inside \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975904/new-bay-area-immigration-court-opens-aims-to-tackle-deportation-backlog\">immigration courthouses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers showed up in the halls and waiting rooms of immigration courts in San Francisco, Concord and Sacramento this week, according to attorneys and others at the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates reported just one local arrest — of a man at the Concord court. But multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/05/22/ice-agents-swarm-san-diego-immigration-court-arresting-people-after-their-hearings\">arrests have occurred in San Diego\u003c/a>, Phoenix and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s outrageous and unprecedented,” said Sean McMahon, a senior attorney with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice. “People have the right to apply for asylum. They have the right to be heard if the government’s asserting that they’re deportable. And ICE is scaring people away from doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an immigrant fails to appear for a hearing, they automatically lose their case and are ordered deported in absentia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMahon said ICE officers were at the San Francisco courthouse every day this week, questioning people entering or leaving courtrooms, and appeared at the Sacramento and Concord courts on at least one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys say they’ve observed ICE prosecutors moving to dismiss charges against immigrants who could be subject to a fast-track removal process. McMahon said they believe the prosecutors are coordinating with ICE officers in the corridors to conduct arrests as people leave the courtrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials acknowledged the courthouse operations in a statement that read, in part: “Secretary Noem is reversing Biden’s catch and release policy that allowed millions of unvetted illegal aliens to be let loose on American streets. This Administration is once again implementing the rule of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE went on to say that it considers immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally within the past two years to be subject to the fast-track deportation process — called \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11357\">expedited removal\u003c/a> — that does not require an immigration court hearing. Since expedited removal was enacted by Congress in 1996, it has been primarily applied to people at the border or who recently entered the country and are encountered within 100 miles of the border. The Trump administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/24/2025-01720/designating-aliens-for-expedited-removal\">expanded its interpretation of the law\u003c/a> to cover people anywhere in the U.S. who can’t prove they’ve been here for at least two years.[aside postID=news_12039137 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-1020x680.jpg']ICE said it will screen people it arrests under the statute for a “credible fear” of persecution in their home country, which would allow them to apply for asylum here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If no valid claim is found, aliens will be subject to a swift deportation,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump pledged “mass deportations” of at least a million people in the first year of his term. In an effort to carry that out, the administration has stripped away a variety of due process protections, and the Republican-controlled House of\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives just approved a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wola.org/analysis/160-billion-to-detain-and-deport-congresss-reconciliation-bill-is-a-betrayal-of-priorities-and-will-harm-the-most-vulnerable/\">massive budget increase\u003c/a> for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero/protected-areas\">revoked\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/04/27/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">Biden-era policy\u003c/a> limiting ICE enforcement in or near courthouses, as well as other “sensitive areas,” such as schools, hospitals and places of worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For ICE officers to be in the courthouses, advocates say they must receive permission from the Executive Office of Immigration Review, as the immigration court system is formally known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re certainly allowing it,” McMahon said. “There’s not just an awareness, but basically a tolerance of ICE’s presence at the court currently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that when volunteers who witnessed the arrest at the Concord immigration court on Wednesday began informing people of their legal rights, the court’s private security guards asked them to leave the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about ICE enforcement inside courthouses, EOIR spokeswoman Kathryn Mattingly declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sergio Lopez, a volunteer coordinator with the Contra Costa Immigrant Rights Alliance, was at the Concord court on Wednesday and observed the arrest. He said ICE agents in plain clothes approached him and asked for identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were kind of aggressive,” he said. “It is a tactic to terrify people. I’ve been receiving texts and calls from a lot of people asking questions about if it’s safe to go to the court. ‘Is it OK, or I could be arrested?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez said his organization plans to deploy legal observers to monitor ICE’s actions at the Concord courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also called on elected officials to speak up for immigrants’ due process rights and to increase funding for legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two Bay Area Democratic members of Congress are demanding answers from U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about a proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037889/trump-administration-considers-immigration-detention-bay-area-military-base-records-show\">first reported by KQED\u003c/a>, to place an immigration detention facility on Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. John Garamendi, whose district includes the base, said Travis is a key staging site from which U.S. military aid is flown to Ukraine and other parts of the world, a mission he said would be harmed if part of the base is turned over to the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is outrageous and it is inappropriate for the administration to use Travis Air Force Base as an immigration detention facility,” he told KQED. “There are dozens of flights that leave Travis every day, moving equipment, personnel and munitions around the world. 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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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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