"Khanna's visit to the California City facility was pre-arranged. His office first reached out to ICE on Dec. 4 to set up the visit, which took place Jan. 5, a staff member said. Khanna said he and an aide spent about three hours there, and took an official tour of the facility - which is set to become ICE's largest in the state, with capacity for nearly 26,000 detainees. Khanna was reportedly told there were 1,428 detainees, including 215 women."
""Then when we met the detainees, I was just floored." 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. "It was really dehumanizing, and many of them were in tears," he said."
A pre-arranged visit to the California City immigration detention facility occurred on Jan. 5 after ICE was contacted on Dec. 4. The visiting team spent about three hours touring the site, which has capacity for nearly 26,000 detainees and is slated to be the largest ICE facility in the state. Reported detainee counts ranged from 922 (Dec. 26 ICE data) to reportedly 1,428, including 215 women. Group sessions included 47 detained people with no prison staff present. Detainees described delayed medical care, blood in urine, rocks in food, undrinkable water, four daily lockdowns, and no-contact family visits; some said they had lived in the U.S. for over a decade and were shocked to be detained.
Read at Kqed
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]