"Legal observers have testified about inadequate food and medical care, extreme overcrowding and almost no education for children in the Capital City Detention Center in Southern California. Senators Padilla, Schiff and Congressman Khanna visited the facility and reported that many of those detained were arrested at their immigration appointments when they were attempting to become legal residents."
"A detention center in the Bay Area will mean significantly more arrests on our streets, in places of employment and more separation of families. Is this the humanitarian immigration system that we want? The vast majority of them had no criminal offenses."
The Department of Homeland Security is considering building a detention center at a shuttered women's federal prison in Dublin. Legal observers have documented inadequate food, medical care, extreme overcrowding, and lack of education for children in existing detention facilities. Senators and congressional representatives who visited similar facilities reported that many detainees were arrested during immigration appointments while attempting to become legal residents and had no criminal offenses. A Bay Area detention center would result in significantly more arrests on streets and workplaces, increased family separations, and contradict humanitarian immigration principles.
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