""What we saw tonight inside the facility was shocking," Stanton told reporters outside the Mesa facility after the brief tour, calling the conditions inside "significantly overcrowded and harmful to the people being detained.""
"The Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center has been operating far over its 157-person capacity for most of this year, raising serious concerns about the treatment of detainees."
Democratic Congress members conducted a surprise visit to the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, discovering severe overcrowding and poor conditions for detainees. The facility has consistently exceeded its 157-person capacity, with reports indicating that conditions worsened after a previous oversight visit. During that earlier visit, the number of detainees temporarily decreased, but soon after, numbers surged again. The Congress members described the conditions as shocking and harmful to those detained, highlighting the urgent need for reform in the facility's operations.
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