Among those detained in California, the majority are not the “worst of the worst” the Trump administration said it was ...

Activists from across Kern County packed a council meeting to protest a proposed ICE detention center in California City as ...

The majority of new detainees at one Kern County facility in McFarland are immigrants with no criminal convictions, according ...

A panel of judges at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals must now decide whether to uphold a temporary restraining order ...

Federal authorities are planning to open California's largest immigration detention center at a former state prison in California City, Kern County. The facility, which can house 2,560 detainees, is ...

Hesperia, praised conditions at the immigration detention facility, Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, and Torres, D-Ontario, denounced ...

Under the new policy, all immigrants will be treated the same. But advocates warn this new approach is a misinterpretation of ...

Politics ICE Looking for New Detention Center in California Despite Democratic Opposition by Wendy Fry • CalMatters Dec. 7, 2024, 11:45 p.m.

ICE arrests from Jan. 20 through late June were of convicted criminals, down from 54% of the 51,000 arrests during the same ...

In December 2019, California passed a law that would have banned private immigration detention centers. It was part of a wave of resistance by California Democrats to the first Trump administration.

In California, private, for-profit prison companies run all six ICE detention facilities – the Golden State Annex and Mesa Verde detention facilities in Kern County; the Adelanto Detention ...