ICE detention center houses handful of inmates despite having thousands of beds: lawmaker
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October 4, 2023
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in California is currently holding only a handful of migrants, although it was designed for nearly 2,000 inmates, according to a GOP lawmaker who is calling on the agency to do more to fill it despite a COVID-era court order that is still in effect.
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Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., in a letter to ICE, urged the administration to do more to find a legal settlement to allow more migrants to be detained there instead of allowing them to be released into the interior.
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