Trouble at a High-Desert Immigration Lockup

Adelanto ICE Processing Center

Paloma Esquivel for the Los Angeles Times reports that, in the high desert 85 miles northeast of L.A., the Adelanto Detention Facility can house nearly 2,000 men and women — asylum seekers, people caught in immigration sweeps and those identified by authorities as potentially removable.  “Officials say more than 73,000 detainees have passed through the privately operated facility since opening in 2011. But complaints there have grown particularly loud this year after five reported suicide attempts since December and three deaths since March. Some detainees have gone on hunger strikes to protest the conditions.”

KJ