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"content": "\u003cp>Federal immigration authorities will soon be required to release a trove of documents that have until now been shielded from public view. In a lawsuit brought by a San Diego-based immigrant rights group, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has given U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement until the end of February to begin releasing its policy documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974484/immigration-border-security-loom-large-in-2024\">immigration enforcement is emerging as a key issue\u003c/a> in this year’s presidential election, the ruling has the potential to bring greater transparency to the sprawling agency responsible for immigration detention and deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Andrew Fels, attorney, Al Otro Lado\"]‘For us, it’s just this idea of trying to stop ICE from, intentionally or not, functioning as a secret police force. We don’t know what they’re doing. We don’t know how they’re doing it. And that’s not what the law allows.’[/pullquote]Al Otro Lado filed the complaint in May after ICE failed to respond to requests for public records. Last month, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/ICEPDFNikAltenberg.pdf\">ordered ICE to release (PDF)\u003c/a> all of the agency’s 339 active policies, as many as 5,627 pages, according to court documents. She gave the agency until Oct. 31 to produce all documents and required that ICE regularly update its website with current policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Fels, an attorney for Al Otro Lado, called the ruling “fantastic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it’s just this idea of trying to stop ICE from, intentionally or not, functioning as a secret police force,” Fels said. “We don’t know what they’re doing. We don’t know how they’re doing it. 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People are really living in the dark,” said Niketa Kumar, a spokesperson for the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus, a civil rights group that has represented immigrants in detention. “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11962387,news_11946255,news_11942414\"]Jose Ruben Hernandez Gomez was one of several \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943030/ice-aburptly-transfers-4-detainee-hunger-strikers-from-california-to-texas-sparking-fears-of-force-feeding\">detainees at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center\u003c/a> in Bakersfield who went on a hunger strike in May to protest conditions in the facility. 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Attorneys with the Asian Law Caucus helped him file a complaint against ICE, a precursor to a potential lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumar said she hopes that the documents that ICE must make public under the judge’s order will “affirm and underscore what Jose Ruben and others have been saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we can expect that this will bring to light practices that have been in the shadows,” Kumar said. “A lot of people who have gone on hunger strike, they’ve put their lives on the line to bring attention to the conditions” in detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE policies often only come to light after litigation, Kumar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement submitted to the court on Jan. 12, Fernando Pineiro, director of ICE’s FOIA office, said that as of January, the office was “handling 168 active FOIA litigations” and, on average, “producing approximately 18,000 pages of responsive records each month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Niketa Kumar, spokesperson, Asian Law Caucus\"]‘I think we can expect that this will bring to light practices that have been in the shadows. A lot of people who have gone on hunger strike, they’ve put their lives on the line to bring attention to the conditions.’[/pullquote]Making ICE policies publicly available could also make it harder for private contractors to skirt responsibility. In California, GEO Group is contracted to run several ICE detention centers. Kumar said the lack of transparency around policies can lead to a lack of accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When GEO engages in misconduct — such as sexually abusive patdowns — the corporation claims that they are doing so pursuant to ICE policy and instructions,” Kumar wrote in an email. But without knowing these policies, it is hard to hold anyone accountable for the alleged mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, when people try to raise grievances with ICE, “ICE often replies that they do not have control over GEO staff,” Kumar wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GEO Group did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Shedding light on family separation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Among the 339 active ICE policies, advocates expect to see documentation governing ICE’s role in the widely condemned practice of separating migrant families at the border. On \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/foia/library\">ICE’s FOIA “reading room,”\u003c/a> the webpage where the agency is required to make many of its public records available, the only document related to the policy of family separation is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/dro_policy_memos/parentchildseparationsmay232008.pdf\">a half-page memo from 2008 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family separations intensified under former President Donald Trump’s administration. Yet, details of the policies implemented under his administration are still largely unknown, according to Fels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The November presidential election is one reason that the Oct. 31 deadline for ICE to make all the documents public is important, Fels said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making sure that we know, before there are any radical shifts in policy, what the current policy actually is — that seems of paramount importance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A bill that would restrict California prisons from handing certain people over to immigration authorities upon their release gets its first hearing in the state Assembly this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1306\">HOME Act\u003c/a>, takes a more targeted approach than its predecessor, the VISION Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924388/effort-to-block-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california-fails-in-final-hours-of-legislative-session\">which narrowly failed in the state Legislature\u003c/a> last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than block all transfers from prison to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the HOME Act would protect noncitizens from being turned over to federal authorities \u003cem>if \u003c/em>the governor has granted them clemency, or they’ve been released from prison due to any of several criminal justice reform laws recently enacted in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Echo Park), says that when the Legislature passed those reforms — aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\">reducing over-incarceration and racial disparities\u003c/a> in the criminal justice system, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/08/governor-newsom-signs-criminal-justice-bills-to-support-reentry-victims-of-crime-and-sentencing-reform/\">offering second chances\u003c/a> — she doesn’t believe lawmakers meant to exclude immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946264\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1229455864-800x555.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks into a microphone behind a dais with a sign that reads \"Los Angeles County Democratic Party.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"555\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo speaks during the Los Angeles County Democratic Party election night drive-in watch party at the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yet the state of California has created a dual system of justice, which treats immigrants differently after they have paid their debt to society and have been paroled. They are not given the opportunity to restart their lives and go home,” she said. “It is a complete injustice in our judicial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal immigration law, even legal permanent residents with green cards can lose their status and be deported if they have committed certain crimes. Undocumented immigrants who lack legal status are also deportable, though in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/governor-newsom-signs-suite-of-legislation-to-support-californias-immigrant-communities-and-remove-outdated-term-alien-from-state-codes/\">California has enacted a range of policies to support all immigrants\u003c/a>, including those who are unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legal tug-of-war\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One person who could have benefited from the HOME Act is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938736/the-state-overturned-her-murder-conviction-but-ice-still-wants-to-deport-her-this-california-woman-is-caught-in-a-legal-tug-of-war\">Sandra Castañeda, a Los Angeles woman who was released from prison in 2021, after 19 years behind bars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda had been convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 after a teenager was killed when a man fired from the window of Castañeda’s van as she drove acquaintances to Taco Bell. The shooter was never arrested, and, though she had no criminal record, Castañeda was sent away for 40 years-to-life for the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946279\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg\" alt=\"A white van seen behind a prison fence at the prison entrance as people stand beside it.\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg 477w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda is loaded into a van from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement inside the gates of the California Institution for Women on the day of her release from prison, July 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Colby Lenz/California Coalition for Women Prisoners)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in 2018 the state Legislature narrowed the “felony murder” law, which allowed for murder charges for people like Castañeda, who were present at a murder but did not themselves kill anyone. And a state judge vacated her conviction and ordered her freed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than let Castañeda go home to her family, prison officials arranged for ICE to take her into custody on the day of her release. She spent another year incarcerated at an ICE detention center in rural Georgia, fighting deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Castañeda has been a legal U.S. resident since age 9, she had never become a citizen, and ICE officials argued that her conviction — even though it had been overturned — was grounds to remove her from the country. An immigration judge has since ruled she’s not deportable because she now has only a misdemeanor on her record, but ICE is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mending the heartbreak\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Castañeda, now 41, will testify at this morning’s state Assembly hearing, calling on lawmakers to pass the HOME Act and to allow people like herself, who’ve earned their release, to be able to return to their loved ones. (She not only had her conviction overturned, based on the change in the felony murder law, but also had her sentence commuted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and won early parole based on her rehabilitation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want them to see what they do to our families and to ourselves,” she said. “I want them to see the heartbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latina woman with a black shirt sits on a couch and smiles to the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1536x1098.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda at home in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, on Aug. 9, 2022, shortly after she was released from a year in immigration detention. Castañeda plans to testify to the state Assembly in favor of the HOME Act, a bill that would allow certain immigrants like herself to be protected from transfer to ICE upon their release from prison. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Castañeda recalled her own sense of fear and powerlessness when, after a years-long effort to be released and the uncertainty over how to build a new life as a free woman, she learned that she faced an immigration hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re already dealing with the roller coaster emotions of coming home. And then they tell you, ‘Oh, never mind, you’re going to go to ICE.’ So now I’ve got to go sit at this place wondering if I’m going to get deported,” she recalled. “That really puts more stress on people. And being in the detention center, you hear about these people committing suicide because they don’t want to go back to their country. It’s a scary situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HOME Act, AB 1306, would bar prisons from handing over to ICE those noncitizens who are being released as a result of several recent criminal justice reform laws passed by the Legislature and signed by Newsom or his predecessor, Jerry Brown. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>People eligible for compassionate release or parole because they are older or suffering severe medical conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People eligible for early parole after serving a set amount of time because their crimes were committed in their youth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People whose crimes were a direct result of having been victims of sexual assault or domestic violence.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People eligible for release because they demonstrate that racial bias affected their case.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People, like Castañeda, eligible for resentencing because they were originally convicted under the felony murder rule but did not kill anyone.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The bill would also protect people whose sentences were commuted by the governor. And, where the unsuccessful \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923465/immigrant-advocates-make-final-push-to-pass-bill-ending-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california\">VISION Act also would have banned transfers from local jails to ICE\u003c/a>, the HOME Act only focuses on restricting transfers by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration agents could still track people down once they are back in their communities, take them into custody and initiate deportation proceedings. But California authorities would be limiting their participation in the process. Illinois, Oregon and Washington, D.C., have already ended prison-to-ICE transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Law enforcement concerns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for ICE said the agency does not comment on pending legislation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A bill that would restrict California prisons from handing certain people over to immigration authorities upon their release gets its first hearing in the state Assembly this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1306\">HOME Act\u003c/a>, takes a more targeted approach than its predecessor, the VISION Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924388/effort-to-block-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california-fails-in-final-hours-of-legislative-session\">which narrowly failed in the state Legislature\u003c/a> last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than block all transfers from prison to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the HOME Act would protect noncitizens from being turned over to federal authorities \u003cem>if \u003c/em>the governor has granted them clemency, or they’ve been released from prison due to any of several criminal justice reform laws recently enacted in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Echo Park), says that when the Legislature passed those reforms — aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\">reducing over-incarceration and racial disparities\u003c/a> in the criminal justice system, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/08/governor-newsom-signs-criminal-justice-bills-to-support-reentry-victims-of-crime-and-sentencing-reform/\">offering second chances\u003c/a> — she doesn’t believe lawmakers meant to exclude immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946264\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1229455864-800x555.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks into a microphone behind a dais with a sign that reads \"Los Angeles County Democratic Party.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"555\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo speaks during the Los Angeles County Democratic Party election night drive-in watch party at the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yet the state of California has created a dual system of justice, which treats immigrants differently after they have paid their debt to society and have been paroled. They are not given the opportunity to restart their lives and go home,” she said. “It is a complete injustice in our judicial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal immigration law, even legal permanent residents with green cards can lose their status and be deported if they have committed certain crimes. Undocumented immigrants who lack legal status are also deportable, though in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/governor-newsom-signs-suite-of-legislation-to-support-californias-immigrant-communities-and-remove-outdated-term-alien-from-state-codes/\">California has enacted a range of policies to support all immigrants\u003c/a>, including those who are unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legal tug-of-war\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One person who could have benefited from the HOME Act is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938736/the-state-overturned-her-murder-conviction-but-ice-still-wants-to-deport-her-this-california-woman-is-caught-in-a-legal-tug-of-war\">Sandra Castañeda, a Los Angeles woman who was released from prison in 2021, after 19 years behind bars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda had been convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 after a teenager was killed when a man fired from the window of Castañeda’s van as she drove acquaintances to Taco Bell. The shooter was never arrested, and, though she had no criminal record, Castañeda was sent away for 40 years-to-life for the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946279\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg\" alt=\"A white van seen behind a prison fence at the prison entrance as people stand beside it.\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg 477w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda is loaded into a van from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement inside the gates of the California Institution for Women on the day of her release from prison, July 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Colby Lenz/California Coalition for Women Prisoners)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in 2018 the state Legislature narrowed the “felony murder” law, which allowed for murder charges for people like Castañeda, who were present at a murder but did not themselves kill anyone. And a state judge vacated her conviction and ordered her freed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than let Castañeda go home to her family, prison officials arranged for ICE to take her into custody on the day of her release. She spent another year incarcerated at an ICE detention center in rural Georgia, fighting deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Castañeda has been a legal U.S. resident since age 9, she had never become a citizen, and ICE officials argued that her conviction — even though it had been overturned — was grounds to remove her from the country. An immigration judge has since ruled she’s not deportable because she now has only a misdemeanor on her record, but ICE is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mending the heartbreak\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Castañeda, now 41, will testify at this morning’s state Assembly hearing, calling on lawmakers to pass the HOME Act and to allow people like herself, who’ve earned their release, to be able to return to their loved ones. (She not only had her conviction overturned, based on the change in the felony murder law, but also had her sentence commuted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and won early parole based on her rehabilitation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want them to see what they do to our families and to ourselves,” she said. “I want them to see the heartbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latina woman with a black shirt sits on a couch and smiles to the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1536x1098.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda at home in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, on Aug. 9, 2022, shortly after she was released from a year in immigration detention. Castañeda plans to testify to the state Assembly in favor of the HOME Act, a bill that would allow certain immigrants like herself to be protected from transfer to ICE upon their release from prison. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Castañeda recalled her own sense of fear and powerlessness when, after a years-long effort to be released and the uncertainty over how to build a new life as a free woman, she learned that she faced an immigration hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re already dealing with the roller coaster emotions of coming home. And then they tell you, ‘Oh, never mind, you’re going to go to ICE.’ So now I’ve got to go sit at this place wondering if I’m going to get deported,” she recalled. “That really puts more stress on people. And being in the detention center, you hear about these people committing suicide because they don’t want to go back to their country. It’s a scary situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HOME Act, AB 1306, would bar prisons from handing over to ICE those noncitizens who are being released as a result of several recent criminal justice reform laws passed by the Legislature and signed by Newsom or his predecessor, Jerry Brown. 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If the session ends without a vote, the bill will die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Tuesday, the authors made amendments to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937\">AB 937\u003c/a> that they hope will address concerns from Democratic senators who pulled back their support last year over opposition from law enforcement groups. One change would allow the state parole board to notify ICE if an immigrant who was released on parole is later convicted of a serious new offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent press conference, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, the bill’s author, emphasized that it would still require incarcerated immigrants to serve their sentences. But under the VISION Act, state and local officials would no longer hand them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement upon release, unless served with a warrant issued by a judge. State and local officials would also stop tracking the birthplace of offenders in their criminal records systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If individuals have served their time, have paid their debt to society, regardless of where you are born you have a right to restart your life,” she said. “That is the societal contract that we have. And California should not be in the business of collaborating with ICE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937\">nearly 1,600 people come out of state prison each year with an immigration hold\u003c/a> that leads to their transfer to ICE to be deported, according to an estimate by state Senate staff.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"California Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo\"]‘If individuals have served their time, have paid their debt to society, regardless of where you are born, you have a right to restart your life. That is the societal contract that we have.’[/pullquote]The VISION Act would close a loophole in an earlier law, the 2018 California Values Act, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">SB 54\u003c/a>, sometimes known as the “sanctuary state” law, which limited police and sheriff’s departments from collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with exceptions for a wide range of crimes, from violent felonies to certain misdemeanors. The Values Act didn’t prohibit transfers to ICE by prisons, but the VISION Act would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and sheriff’s groups oppose the bill. They point to federal law, which says immigrants, even those who are legal with green cards, can be deported if they’ve committed a so-called “aggravated felony,” from a long list of crimes that includes some misdemeanors. And they say it’s safer for ICE to take custody of a person inside a locked facility than to arrest them at their home or a public location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed legislation puts local law enforcement in a no-win situation, having to choose between state and federal laws,” the Police Officers Research Association of California said in a statement last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a joint statement, \u003ca href=\"https://ct3.blob.core.windows.net/21blobs/58984f34-e091-4208-93db-4e804b666038\">law enforcement groups noted that the VISION Act would prevent them\u003c/a> from notifying immigration authorities of the release of people who had served sentences for crimes such as rape, murder and torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also not arguing that immigrants somehow pose any more threat than citizens or asking to involve immigration authorities in low-level offenses. 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They point to other states — including Oregon and Illinois — which have passed laws to end most prison-to-ICE transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, we’re always proud to say that we’re the first when it comes to social justice,” said veteran civil rights and labor organizer Dolores Huerta. “Well, now we’re not the first, because other states have already taken care of this issue. … It’s time for us to act.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sandra Castañeda, Los Angeles resident\"]‘I thought I would never say this, but prison is better than this place.’[/pullquote]Huerta called the transfers “double jeopardy” because people often wind up spending additional months or years in ICE detention, where it’s more difficult to mount a defense against deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles resident Sandra Castañeda lived through that. When her conviction for a murder she didn’t commit was vacated last summer, she thought she’d be going home after 19 years in prison. Instead, she was handed to ICE and held for a year in a private detention center in rural Georgia. She said she saw many women there give up their cases in desperation and accept deportation, because they couldn’t bear the conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I would never say this, but prison is better than this place,” Castañeda said last month in a phone call from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. “In prison you have a routine. You have a job, there’s classes, there’s things to do. … Here, you’re stuck in a dorm with 23 people, all day, every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda was released this month with the help of a pro bono lawyer, Anoop Prasad of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. An immigration judge ruled that she’s not deportable because she no longer has an aggravated felony on her record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda’s conviction was wiped away by a California judge after the Legislature eliminated the state’s “felony murder” rule, which had allowed her to be charged with murder because she was driving a car out of which a fatal shot was fired, even though she had no indication that her passenger would shoot. But Prasad noted that Castañeda also earned a commutation from Gov. Gavin Newsom because of her exemplary behavior in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the governor on the one hand to be like, ‘I’m granting clemency. You’re a model for other incarcerated people.’ And then in the next breath to say, ‘Oh, call up ICE and have this person deported,’” makes no sense, Prasad said. “California needs to end this hypocrisy of working with an agency that’s so cruel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC San Diego poll last summer found \u003ca href=\"https://usipc.ucsd.edu/publications/usipc-vision-act-final-20210803.pdf\">two-thirds of California voters supported the VISION Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill could go to a vote in the state Senate next week. Newsom has not given any indication of whether he will sign the bill if it reaches his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 26 Correction: A previous version of this story mischaracterized SB 54, the California Values Act, saying it allowed police and sheriffs to collaborate with ICE only in cases of immigrants convicted of serious or violent crimes. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chanting, “Shut it down! Shut it down!,” more than a dozen protesters gathered this week in downtown San Francisco to demand the Biden administration permanently stop detaining immigrants at a county jail north of Sacramento that they say has a long history of dangerous confinement conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yuba County Jail in Marysville is the only remaining public facility in California that gets paid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to lock up immigrants fighting deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Detention is always bad, but especially at Yuba County Jail, because of its history of mental health neglect, of medical neglect, of, unfortunately, tragic deaths,” said Laura Duarte Bateman, communications manager with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, which organized Wednesday’s protest outside ICE’s San Francisco offices.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ricardo Vasquez Cruz, a Salvadoran immigrant who was detained at Yuba County Jail\"]'What I experienced, I don't want another human being to live through that.'[/pullquote]“We’ve seen that, for more than 40 years, they’ve had these really horrible conditions,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail has been under the supervision of a federal court since 1979. A consent decree that was negotiated beforehand between the county and attorneys representing people incarcerated in the jail required the facility to improve conditions, including by providing timely medical care and access to exercise and recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, four decades after it went into effect, the consent decree was amended to reflect current issues with the jail. But a recent monitoring report by the original attorneys concluded \u003ca href=\"https://rbgg.com/yuba-county-jail-monitoring-report-again-finds-county-not-in-compliance-with-amended-consent-decree/\">the jail is still not in full compliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found a number of violations, including a failure to follow intake protocols at the jail, which may have contributed to one person’s death, and the ongoing practice of placing people with serious mental illness in segregated housing units on a long-term basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52944_IMG_4617-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11899496 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52944_IMG_4617-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman speaks into a microphone, in front of two other women holding a banner that says '¡Somos 11!'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52944_IMG_4617-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52944_IMG_4617-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52944_IMG_4617-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52944_IMG_4617-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52944_IMG_4617-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Duarte Bateman speaks to protesters in front of ICE's offices in San Francisco on Dec. 15, 2021. On her right is Miguel Araujo, 73, who was held by ICE at the Yuba County Jail in 2018 and continues to fight deportation. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In April 2020, the jail held 144 immigrants as part of its arrangement with ICE. But all the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835611/ice-detainees-at-yuba-jail-press-for-covid-19-protections\">detainees were released during the pandemic\u003c/a>, partly as a result of another federal judge’s orders aimed at preventing a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, ICE is still on the hook to pay Yuba County at least $23,720 a day as part of their agreement, even though no detainees are currently being held there, according to the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That expenditure was criticized as an “obvious waste of resources” by two dozen Democratic members of Congress from California who in October \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/sites/lofgren.house.gov/files/CA%20ICE%20Detention%20Letter.pdf\">expressed their grievances in a letter\u003c/a> to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose agency oversees ICE. The lawmakers urged Mayorkas to take immediate steps to end ICE’s contracts with both the jail and two privately run detention centers in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"immigration\"]“Those detained at Yuba have experienced a lack of medical care, broken hygiene facilities, unsanitary conditions including mold and insects, spoiled food, and excessive use of solitary confinement, leading to repeat protests and hunger strikes, when formal complaints were mishandled,” the letter, signed by Rep. 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Vasquez Cruz, 46, was detained by ICE at Yuba County Jail for more than three years, he said, and released on Oct. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have 24/7 medical and mental health care available for those in our custody, and the men and women who work in the Yuba County Jail provide a high level of service,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 22,000 people were detained in ICE facilities across the country as of Dec. 5, down from more than 27,000 reported in June, according to researchers at Syracuse University. The data shows that \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/quickfacts/\">75% of those detained have no criminal record\u003c/a>, while many others have only minor violations, such as traffic infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE says it must lock up people fighting deportation to ensure they appear for their court hearings. 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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. 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Also on Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/968989967/democrats-unveil-sweeping-immigration-bill\">congressional Democrats unveiled an immigration bill\u003c/a> – \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/inauguration-day-live-updates/2021/01/20/958626092/on-immigration-biden-goes-big-in-opening-bid-to-congress\">a plan that President Biden had proposed on his first day in office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill includes a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States and a fast-track process for young \"Dreamer\" immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. The bill faces steep hurdles in a divided Congress. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes at ICE also face pushback – from outside the agency and within. Immigration hawks complain that the new guidance will prevent ICE agents and officers from doing their jobs – in essence, abolishing ICE without actually abolishing it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The men and women of ICE, they took an oath to enforce immigration laws,\" said Thomas Homan, who served as acting ICE director under former President Trump. \"It's unfortunate they can't do the job. ... And it's unfortunate that many criminals are going to be walking the streets of America because this administration simply thinks they're not important enough to take off the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE is charged with enforcing the nation's immigration laws – including arresting and deporting people living in the country illegally. In many ways, its agents became the public face of Trump's immigration crackdown, spreading fear and confusion in immigrant communities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new guidance also was greeted with criticism from some immigrant advocates. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naureen Shah, senior advocacy and policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement that the Biden administration isn't going far enough to \"fully break from the harmful deportation policies of both the Trump and Obama presidencies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said the guidance would lead to \"continued disproportionate deportations of Black and Brown immigrants, including Muslims\" and that it contradicts the Biden administration's pledge to make sure that people seeking asylum are treated with dignity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new guidance directs ICE agents and officers to focus on non-citizens who recently crossed the border illegally, or who are deemed to be threats to national security or public safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidance defines a public safety threat as someone who has been convicted of an aggravated felony, such as murder and rape, or of actively participating in a criminal street gang. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field officers have been instructed to seek preapproval from supervisors before making arrests of non-citizens convicted of other crimes, such as minor drug offenses, immigration offenses and driving under the influence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, that means ICE arrests would be limited largely to immigrants who have been convicted of felony offenses and are already detained in federal or state prisons. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unusual for enforcement priorities at ICE to change from administration to administration – nor is it unusual for the changes to be controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='ice']The Obama administration instructed ICE to prioritize criminals for removal. Obama then faced criticism from immigrant advocates who decried the dramatic rise in deportations under his watch, as well as immigration hard-liners who said he shouldn't have set any priorities that tied agents' hands. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration guidelines are more restrictive – and facing the same range of criticism. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obama-era policies ... set a dangerous precedent for the non-enforcement of the immigration laws of the United States in the name of prioritizing scarce ICE resources,\" said Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge who is now at the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit in Washington that advocates for lower levels of immigration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration's plan is \"much, much worse,\" Arthur \u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Arthur/Biden-Limits-Immigration-Enforcement-Are-Much-Worse-Even-Obamas\">wrote in a blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homan, the former acting director of ICE, predicted that the new guidance would hurt morale at the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the union representing ICE agents has been silent on the new Biden guidance, the National ICE Council twice endorsed Trump for president and agents talked openly about feeling empowered during his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the Trump administration ended, the union signed an unusual labor agreement with ICE. 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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 say a growing outbreak of COVID-19 at the Yuba County Jail is putting the people held there at risk, including some who are medically vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 16,\u003ca href=\"https://sheriff.co.yuba.ca.us/Documents/Jail/20201216%20COVID19%20Cases%20at%20Yuba%20County%20Jail.pdf\"> Yuba County Jail officials\u003c/a> closed the facility to visits after they identified seven confirmed cases. Since then, according to attorneys, the number of people infected has increased to 78, which is more than 30% of the total jail population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the majority of people housed at the Yuba County Jail are in county custody, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are held there as well. In April, the San Francisco Public Defender's office filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of ICE detainees at the Yuba jail and the Mesa Verde detention facility in Bakersfield, citing dangerous conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"immigration\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Kavanagh, a senior attorney for the San Francisco-based California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, says she spoke with two detainees who have tested positive for COVID-19. Kavanagh says they described \"disgusting conditions,\" including \"trash, gum, fingernails and excrement,\" and reported using a bathroom shared by those with and without COVID-19 that is \"not cleaned between uses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, ICE detainees inside the facility \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835611/ice-detainees-at-yuba-jail-press-for-covid-19-protections\">went on a hunger strike\u003c/a> for five days to draw attention to the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who's presiding over the case, ruled that lawyers could apply for the release of ICE detainees on a case-by-case basis. He also ordered in June that ICE and the jail take precautions such as keeping detainees out of the older, more crowded side of the jail and isolating COVID-19 symptomatic people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates say those protections have begun to erode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw detainees starting to be moved back into the old side of the jail, and later on [housed] two to a cell,\" said Kelly Engel Wells, a San Francisco deputy public defender. \"We received reports of symptomatic individuals who were not being isolated and tested as the protocol required. And that just set up the perfect storm for the first positive case that happened about two weeks ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Kelly Engel Wells, SF deputy public defender']'We received reports of symptomatic individuals who were not being isolated and tested as the protocol required. And that just set up the perfect storm for the first positive case that happened about two weeks ago.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanagh estimates the jail currently houses around 20 ICE detainees out of the total 235 people held there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is her client Ruperto Robles, 59, who's been detained in the facility since November 2019. Originally from Mexico, he has lived in the United States with a green card for 30 years, Kavanagh said, but was transferred to ICE for deportation after some contact with law enforcement. Robles contracted COVID-19 at Yuba, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html\">considered medically vulnerable\u003c/a> due to a history of diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was considered so high risk in terms of COVID that he has been held in isolation for most of the pandemic, which has been really harmful to his mental health,\" Kavanagh said. \"And despite claiming that they were isolating him to protect him, he was moved within the jail to four different locations within the past two weeks, including into locations where people were later testing positive for COVID and removed out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11852766 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969.jpg\" alt='\"\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969-800x574.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_0038-e1608774224969-1536x1102.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruperto Robles, pictured here in an old family photo. Robles is asking to be released from ICE custody while he recovers from COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Katie Kavanagh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking through an interpreter, Robles told KQED he had been feeling healthy until he was transferred around the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanagh also said she and Robles received conflicting information about whether or not he had COVID-19, something that only came to light as part of the class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Two days ago, at night, they told class counsel that Ruperto was positive for COVID. In the morning, they said, 'Never mind, he's not positive.' And then two hours later, on the status conference, they said, 'oops, never mind. He is positive,'\" she said. \"So what we're seeing is just a very high level of incompetence and disregard for human life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanagh has filed a request for Robles to be released to a hotel room where he can recover from the virus and isolate while his case is decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. An immigrant rights group, NorCal Resist, has committed to pay for the hotel room and provide Robles with post-release support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robles said he would feel safer in a hotel room, and his health would more likely improve if he was removed from the jail outbreak. 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"content": "\u003cp>When she started working at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego two years ago, Erica Brooks was the master scheduler, so she got to know all the detention officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This March, Brooks said she was working as a detention officer when she started hearing that her co-workers were getting sick with the coronavirus. But for weeks, she said, there was no official word from her bosses at the facility, which holds immigrants awaiting deportation hearings and federal defendants awaiting trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her employer, CoreCivic, one of the nation’s largest private prison companies, handed out a flyer from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that encouraged handwashing, she said, but the company wasn’t taking obvious steps to protect inmates and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s things that you can do to prevent it,” Brooks said. “But those things weren’t being done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As late as the end of March, when the state was under shelter-in-place orders to limit the spread of the coronavirus, meals were still served in the “chow hall” with hundreds of people from different housing units congregating together, Brooks said. Radios, keys and handcuffs all passed between officers throughout the day, and they weren’t getting sanitized, she said, and staff members were not screened for symptoms when they arrived for their shifts. In addition, there was no social distancing at the daily staff briefings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’d be sometimes 30 to 50 people in a small room, talking,” she said. “That wasn’t safe to me, sitting in that room with whomever, asymptomatic or someone sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks was anxious. By the end of March, she had stopped going to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before the number of infections at the detention center climbed to more than 250 — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus#tab2\">largest outbreak\u003c/a> at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility anywhere in the country. And on May 7, ICE officials confirmed that a 57-year-old man detained at Otay Mesa had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816707/man-dies-of-covid-19-in-san-diego-ice-detention-center-lawyers-say\">died of COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, Brooks sued her employer CoreCivic. At least two other officers from Otay Mesa have done the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Erica Brooks, former detention officer, Otay Mesa Detention Center\"]‘My coworker, she worked in receiving, she got sick with COVID. She went home. Her husband got sick with COVID. They both went to the ICU. And her husband did not make it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Gustin, a spokesman for CoreCivic, said the company wouldn’t comment on pending litigation. But he said in a statement, “The Otay Mesa Detention Center has taken affirmative and proactive measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, and followed the most current guidance from medical and industry experts on best practices and recommendations for safe operations. Our practices have evolved and changed as the CDC guidance and recommendations have evolved over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin said that meals are now served in individual housing units, staff are now screened when arriving for work and detainees with COVID-19 are housed in “cohorts.” He also said protective masks have been provided to all staff and detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t happen until after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812701/senators-want-to-know-if-ice-detainees-were-pepper-sprayed-after-requesting-masks\">detainees protested on April 10\u003c/a>, demanding masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits filed by Brooks and her co-workers come at a time of growing scrutiny of the pandemic’s severe impacts on essential front line workers, and also on incarcerated people — both groups disproportionately comprise people of color, including Erica Brooks, who is African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lethal Outbreaks in Prisons\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Massive — and lethal — outbreaks of the coronavirus have been surging through not only the Otay Mesa facility, but a number of state and federal prisons in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">3,018 state prison inmates had tested positive\u003c/a> for COVID-19, along with 408 employees of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The biggest outbreaks have been at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Avenal State Prison, the California Institution for Men and the California Institution for Women. And 12 inmates have died, all at the California Institution for Men in San Bernardino County, as well as one CDCR staff member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lance Wilson, Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution inmate“]‘People are sick all around me. They are giving us a death sentence. The likelihood of becoming infected is enormous.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/index.jsp\">federal prisons\u003c/a> at Lompoc, in Santa Barbara County, have confirmed cases in 42 staff members, as well as 1,069 inmates — four of whom have died, as of Monday. And the Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution, in Los Angeles, had a total of 17 employees and 690 inmates with COVID-19 — including nine inmates who have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing last week before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, public health expert Dr. Scott Allen \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/17/we-must-release-prisoners-lessen-spread-coronavirus/\">warned\u003c/a> that prisons and detention centers are “densely populated and poorly designed to prevent the inevitable rapid and widespread dissemination” of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This virus does not care who you are or what uniform you wear,” Allen, a retired professor of medicine from UC Riverside who serves as a health expert for the Department of Homeland Security, said in written testimony to the judiciary committee. “It can easily move in and out of facilities undetected in the absence of aggressive testing-based surveillance and containment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘They Are Left to Die’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the inmates sick with the virus at Terminal Island federal prison is Lance Wilson, 35, an African American man from Modesto with hypertension and asthma. Terminal Island houses more than 1,000 low-security inmates with chronic and complex medical conditions in a facility that was designed for 800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of letters Wilson wrote after the prison cut off email and telephone access in April, reportedly to prevent the spread of the virus, he told his brother Jacque Wilson that his bunk was only two feet away from his cellmate — and that the growing number of ill inmates were not being separated from healthy ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11823572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Wilson with his daughter at her birthday party in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lance Wilson with his daughter at her birthday party in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Wilson family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 29, Lance wrote, “People are sick all around me. They are giving us a death sentence. The likelihood of becoming infected is enormous.” Three days later, he tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque is an attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender’s office and said Lance is serving a sentence for playing a role in a prescription drug theft ring. His brother’s story reflects the experience of many incarcerated people during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said his brother has had chills, headaches and shortness of breath but has not been seen by a doctor and hasn’t had his temperature taken since May 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart just bleeds for those individuals who are locked up,” said Jacque. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it: They are left to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said he has helped his brother file a petition for compassionate release. On May 16, the ACLU filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/aclu_socal_wilson_20200516_complaint.pdf\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, with Lance Wilson as a lead plaintiff, that calls on the Federal Bureau of Prisons to release inmates and ensure safe social distancing and sanitary measures at Terminal Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit seeks to have Lance released to home confinement,” said Jacque. “The Constitution requires that prison officials provide a safe environment for those people that are in custody. Where Lance is at now is not a safe environment. It’s not a safe environment for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment because of the pending lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit is one of numerous legal actions filed around California and across the country seeking to protect incarcerated people from the coronavirus. A number of lawsuits filed against ICE have led to the release of dozens of detainees, especially medically vulnerable people, at Otay Mesa and other facilities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has also been reducing the number of people it is holding in detention during the pandemic. The number of detainees has dropped to 25,000 nationally — less than half what it was a year ago when the Trump Administration held a record 52,000 immigrants in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though ICE has only tested 20% of the people in its custody for COVID-19, more than half of those tests have come back positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of detainees at ICE’s Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield, say the agency is not doing enough to protect them and last Thursday announced a hunger strike in protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘How Am I Supposed to Protect Myself?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the number of cases at the Otay Mesa Detention Center grew this spring, detention officer Brooks said she scrambled to figure out how to protect herself, her husband and her 3-year-old son. When she came home from work, she would strip off her uniform in the garage and scrub down in the shower before saying hello to her little boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks is just 30 years old, but because she’s overweight she fears she’s at a higher risk of complications from COVID-19. And, she said, she’s keenly aware that her family is African American. Statistically, African Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race\">more than twice as likely to die\u003c/a> from the coronavirus as people of other races. And Brooks didn’t want to become a statistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My coworker, she worked in receiving, she got sick with COVID. She went home. Her husband got sick with COVID. They both went to the ICU. And her husband did not make it,” said Brooks. “I don’t want to be her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said she was never issued a mask by her employer, and she and other officers were told they shouldn’t wear them because masks would intimidate the detainees. But Brooks said detainees told her they feared guards could be bringing the virus into the facility and wanted them to wear masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a nurse at the facility gave her a mask, Brooks said she started wearing it on the job. Then a supervisor approached her during an overnight shift, in the wee hours of the morning on March 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically he said, I want to let you know that it’s a violation of a direct order to wear your mask,” said Brooks. “So we got into a conversation and I asked him, ‘Well, how am I supposed to protect myself?’ And when I told him that, he looked at me and he said, ‘Look at your I.D. card. It’s a number, not a name. Everybody’s disposable.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the last straw for Brooks. She took a month off from work before realizing she couldn’t go back. She said it has been tough financially — she’s getting unemployment benefits, but she had to cash out her retirement account to cover the bills. Still, she has no regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"otay-mesa\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, 29 of her CoreCivic coworkers have been infected, along with 11 ICE staff members at Otay Mesa. In addition, 162 ICE detainees and 71 federal inmates there have tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her lawsuit, Brooks and her attorneys write that CoreCivic failed to train detention officers “on how to handle infectious diseases, yet they are on the front lines of interacting with potentially infected persons.” They are asking the court to award punitive damages to push CoreCivic to better protect staff in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer, I gave everything that I had to the detainees, who are human. You know, we’re all human,” she said. “When you give your all to something and you continuously try to put your best foot forward … and then you get told, ‘You’re number, not a name’ … I just was devastated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks’s husband, an electrical engineer, has been going to work at job sites, but she thinks his company is taking the right safety precautions. For herself, she said she’s relieved to be done with a job where she felt helpless and unsafe. She said she’s spending a lot of time with her son now and looking for a different career path.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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