Press Releases

COVID-19 Outbreak at Adelanto ICE Detention Center

LOS ANGELES — According to government documents revealed yesterday, there has been a major outbreak of COVID-19 at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

September 17, 2020

Federal Court Backs Trump’s Order to Kill TPS Program

In a 2-1 decision today, a three-judge Panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Trump administration’s effort to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of approximately 300,000 people who have lived here lawfully, many of them for decades.

September 14, 2020

L.A. County Ends Warrantless ICE Transfers

Motion passed by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors enshrines as county policy a recently enacted sheriff’s internal policy, to strengthen protections for immigrants

September 1, 2020

McFarland Sued Over Unlawful Approval of Huge ICE Detention Center

BAKERSFIELD — In the battle over the establishment of a proposed 1,400-bed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in the city of McFarland in Kern County, hundreds of protesters showed up at meetings and rallies to make their opposition known.

August 25, 2020

Court Orders ICE to Test All Mesa Verde Detainees, Staff

SAN FRANCISCO — In an emergency order late yesterday, federal District Court Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to test all people detained and all staff at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center for COVID-19. Chhabria emphasized the urgency of a situation

August 17, 2020

ICE Secretly Bans COVID-19 Testing of Adelanto Detainees

LOS ANGELES — In a shocking discovery, it has been found that although about 1,900 COVID-19 test kits were sent to the immigrant detention center in Adelanto, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials refused to allow the vast majority of them to be used. The refusal to give tests to

August 11, 2020