A Honduran man who lived and worked in the U.S. for 26 years died after being held at a California immigration detention facility for more than a month,…
Read more Honduran father died in ICE custody in California. His family wants an investigationWASHINGTON — No one seems to know what happened to Vicente Ventura Aguilar. A witness told his brother and attorneys that the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant, who doesn’t have lawful immigration…
Read more An L.A. man was detained in an immigration raid. No one knows where he isFernando Gomez Ruiz had been eating at a lunch truck outside Home Depot when agents arrested him and 10 others in early October. The diabetic father of two,…
Read more Why California’s newest detention facility faces federal lawsuit over medical neglect and ‘punitive’ unsanitary conditionsWASHINGTON — For more than a year, detainees at a California immigrant detention center said, they were summoned from their dorms to a lieutenant’s office late at night. Hours frequently…
Read more Immigrant detainees say they were harassed, sexually assaulted by guard who got promotedThe lights never dimmed and Angel Minguela Palacios couldn’t sleep. He pulled what felt like a large sheet of aluminum foil over his head, but couldn’t adjust to…
Read more A strawberry delivery driver arrested by Border Patrol tries to make his way homeWhen a door slammed shut in the childhood home of Andry Hernández Romero, he wasn’t just startled. He winced, recoiling from the noise. Nearly a month had passed…
Read more ‘Is being gay a crime?’ Venezuelan makeup artist rebuilds life after 125 days in El Salvador prisonWASHINGTON — Mattresses on the floor, next to bunk beds, in meeting rooms and gymnasiums. No access to a bathroom or drinking water. Hourlong lines to buy food at the…
Read more ‘It’s happening everywhere’: 1 in 3 ICE detainees held in overcrowded facilities, data showBenjamin Guerrero-Cruz’s family was stunned and heartbroken when the 18-year-old was grabbed by immigration agents while walking his dog in Van Nuys just days before he was set…
Read more L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents’ knowledgeWASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used solitary confinement at its detention facilities more than 14,000 times between 2018 and 2023, including one California immigrant detainee who was…
Read more ICE kept a California immigrant in solitary confinement for two years, study findsWASHINGTON — Workers at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, one of California’s largest immigrant detention facilities, are urging the federal government not to shut it down next year following…
Read more One of California's largest ICE detention centers could close. Staff urge Biden to keep it open
