CA Rep. Obernolt Reveals District’s ICE Facility is Mostly Empty Due to Old COVID Order
“I am alarmed at the current situation, especially since the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, which was specifically designed to house individuals in immigration detention for ICE, currently has the available capacity to house 1,932 additional detainees.”
Rep. Jay Obernolt (R-CA) revealed the ICE detention center in his district is rarely used because of an old COVID court order.
Adelanto, CA, is located in the 23rd District. It occupies San Bernardino County and is mostly in the Mojave Desert.
The center is 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
Officials have only used eight beds out of 1,940 available ones, even though the border had over 260,000 encounters.
“I am deeply concerned about recent media reports that ICE is releasing illegal immigrants into communities across the U.S. under the pretense of limited space in detention facilities,” Rep. Obernolte told ICE. “I am alarmed at the current situation, especially since the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, which was specifically designed to house individuals in immigration detention for ICE, currently has the available capacity to house 1,932 additional detainees. Even more perplexing is the fact that the COVID-19 national emergency, the primary justification used to limit the intake of new detainees at the Adelanto facility, was declared ended by President Joe Biden on May 11.”
I found reports of immigrants suing the center over the disinfectant used in the center to kill the COVID-19 virus.
The immigrants filed the lawsuit in May, which is when Biden declared the COVID emergency over.
But I don’t see anything saying the lawsuit is part of the problem.
Obernolt pointed out that problems at other facilities have been solved:
Instead, the government has engaged in a sluggish mediation process that has demonstrated zero progress for more than two years, despite nearly identical federal cases involvimg the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in California and the Tacoma ICE Processing Facility in Washington having settled by the federal government, which allowed regular intakes to resume at those locations. I find it deeply concerning that the current Adelanto case has not been settled on the exact same terms, and ICE’s efforts to rectify this has been negligible. Given the huge demand, this is unacceptable.
The border crisis has worsened since Biden took over as president. He promised everything to them on the campaign trail, so they rushed to the border.
People have not stopped thinking Biden and his cronies will give them everything.
The illegal immigrants have overrun the small border towns to the point that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sent people to New York City, Chicago, DC, and other supposed sanctuary cities.
Those cities are at their breaking point.
“At a time when our communities are suffering historis levels of illegal migrants overruning our law enforcement authorities to the point that they have been forced to use additional taxpayer resources to hold them in hotels, prisons, and other detention housing alternatives, it is unacceptable that the Adelanto facility, wherein significant taxpayer resources have already been invested, has been so underutilized and neglected,” added Obernolt. “This underutilization has come at great expense to the U.S. taxpayer, a situation which has entirely avoidable and now must be corrected.”
ICE and Border Patrol facilities are too crowded. We’ve seen ICE have to put people in cages outside in the hot sun because they don’t have any room.
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Right now, the procedure seems to be: interview the illegals as they dry off, put them in detainment housing for a minimum of time, issue them papers and a court date north of Armageddon, and then declare them free to roam about the country.
I just don’t see what utility a detention center located NE of Los Angeles brings to the table at all.
Such a detention center seems to be more suitable for housing apprehended deportees for the local area. Nobody’s even bothering to do that anymore.
Detaining them in this legal climate just lets them sue for things like which disinfectant was used in their detention facility. I like the Texas approach better. Let them live together in Colony Ridge at their own expense and under their own responsibility. And whatever happens in Colony Ridge, we don’t even have to know.
Obvious comment that if our major cities are “at the breaking point” over thousands of migrants being sent there, whom Biden’s federal government allowed in, what about border communities in Texas? They’re likely totally destroyed. Where is federal help and protection for them?
That’s the plan
Proving yet again that COVID is/was a political disease.
Maybe we can use the facilities to house the illegals vs. hotels, or put “politicians in cages.” instead of those children from the Biden Border crisis.
Indeed it was and it effects linger. Don’t let those who allowed the Covid Karens or Fauci Fascists to run amok unchecked off the hook until they at least admit their errors in enabling all the Covid Cray Cray and/or their active participation in imposing it onto us. No redemption until they confess.
Because it could be used to house the ILLEGAL ALIENS!