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José López Zamorano La Red Hispana The recent deaths during Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations force us to ask a crucial question: what can be done to prevent immigration detentions from ending human life? In less than a week, ICE agents fatally shot two drivers, a Mexican in...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters La empresa privada de detención de inmigrantes GEO Group ha llegado a un acuerdo en un caso histórico sobre las condiciones en uno de sus centros de detención en el Valle Central. La empresa acordó pagar más de 100,000 dólares por las acusaciones de que no...
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Immigrant detainees work for $1 a day inside a Geo Group facility in the San Joaquin Valley. The company settled a state complaint over conditions inside. Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for WhatMatters to receive the latest news...
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Wendy Fry CalMatters A federal judge on Wednesday June 10 ordered the Otay Mesa Detention Center to allow San Diego County health inspectors access to the 1,400-bed facility, siding with local officials over the federal government in an ongoing legal feud. The ruling could affect how local officials across...
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The escalating situation at the ICE detention center in Delaney Hall, Newark, New Jersey, has quickly become a flashpoint in the national immigration debate. With hundreds of detainees on hunger or work strikes due to living conditions, and violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement outside, the crisis offers...
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Wendy Fry & Nigel Duara CalMatters San Diego County Sheriff’s officials failed to investigate at least seven reported sexual assaults at the privately run Otay Mesa immigration detention center in 2025, and records show the agency has ceded control of the cases to civilian administrators employed by the nation’s largest for-profit...
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Wendy Fry CalMatters Un inmigrante turco que huyó de su país después de ser torturado ahora está en casa con su esposa en San Diego después de haber estado detenido durante aproximadamente siete semanas por las autoridades estadounidenses. Idris Demirtas , de 25 años, fue liberado solo después de que...
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Wendy Fry CalMatters A Turkish immigrant who fled his country after being tortured is now home with his wife in San Diego after being held for about seven weeks by U.S. authorities. Idris Demirtas, 25, was released only after a federal judge in the Southern District of California granted...
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When Monica walked through the door of her home after three months in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, in Adelanto, California, her six-year-old daughter’s first words cut deep: ‘Why did you abandon us?’. For Monica (we are not using her real name to protect her privacy), detention was harrowing,...
José López Zamorano La Red Hispana The recent deaths during Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations force us to ask a crucial question: what can be done to prevent immigration detentions from ending human life? In less than a week, ICE agents fatally shot two drivers, a Mexican in...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters La empresa privada de detención de inmigrantes GEO Group ha llegado a un acuerdo en un caso histórico sobre las condiciones en uno de sus centros de detención en el Valle Central. La empresa acordó pagar más de 100,000 dólares por las acusaciones de que no...
Immigrant detainees work for $1 a day inside a Geo Group facility in the San Joaquin Valley. The company settled a state complaint over conditions inside. Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for WhatMatters to receive the latest news...
Wendy Fry CalMatters A federal judge on Wednesday June 10 ordered the Otay Mesa Detention Center to allow San Diego County health inspectors access to the 1,400-bed facility, siding with local officials over the federal government in an ongoing legal feud. The ruling could affect how local officials across...
The escalating situation at the ICE detention center in Delaney Hall, Newark, New Jersey, has quickly become a flashpoint in the national immigration debate. With hundreds of detainees on hunger or work strikes due to living conditions, and violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement outside, the crisis offers...
Wendy Fry & Nigel Duara CalMatters San Diego County Sheriff’s officials failed to investigate at least seven reported sexual assaults at the privately run Otay Mesa immigration detention center in 2025, and records show the agency has ceded control of the cases to civilian administrators employed by the nation’s largest for-profit...
Wendy Fry CalMatters Un inmigrante turco que huyó de su país después de ser torturado ahora está en casa con su esposa en San Diego después de haber estado detenido durante aproximadamente siete semanas por las autoridades estadounidenses. Idris Demirtas , de 25 años, fue liberado solo después de que...
Wendy Fry CalMatters A Turkish immigrant who fled his country after being tortured is now home with his wife in San Diego after being held for about seven weeks by U.S. authorities. Idris Demirtas, 25, was released only after a federal judge in the Southern District of California granted...
When Monica walked through the door of her home after three months in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, in Adelanto, California, her six-year-old daughter’s first words cut deep: ‘Why did you abandon us?’. For Monica (we are not using her real name to protect her privacy), detention was harrowing,...