A hunger strike is underway at a private immigration detention center in Southern California. The Otay Mesa facility has a history of complaints from detainees about living conditions inside.
A cell in the Otay Mesa, California, detention center in 2006. As coronavirus continues to spread, a crisis is growing inside ICE immigration detention centres in the US. Verónica says that for ...
Currently, the Otay Mesa Detention Facilities are on shelter-in-place status, with an evacuation plan prepared should the situation escalate. While no immediate danger has been reported at these l ...
the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego County; and the Imperial Regional Detention Facility in Imperial County. Across all six, the federal government has the capacity to detain up to 7,188 ...