""I'm leaving here even more concerned than I was when I arrived," Padilla said, as the detention facility, surrounded by barbed wire, loomed behind him. "The population here is only going to grow.""
""We heard from detainees who said there was mold in their food," he said. "Many described getting stomach aches from drinking the water here.""
""What we have seen from Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security is frankly sick and un-American. ICE is out-of-control, terrorizing people, including American citizens, and actively making our communities less safe," Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), vice chair of the U.S. Senate Committee for Appropriations said in a written statement."
U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff conducted an oversight visit to the California City Detention Facility and decried inadequate medical care and poor living conditions. Detainees reported drinking water that smells bad, mold in food, and stomach aches after consuming the water. The senators warned the facility population will increase as ICE detentions grow and as Congress considers expanding detention bed funding. Following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Democrats threatened to block funding unless new policies curb ICE authority. A bipartisan bill would fund ICE at $10 billion while reducing enforcement and removal budgets.
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