ICE Blocked from Making Use of 1,900 Person California Detention Center Due to Outdated COVID Policy; CA ICE Detention Center Holding Only 5 Detainees due to Outdated COVID-19 Rule; Video Shows Migrants Released by Biden Admin Camping on El Paso Streets

ICE blocked from making use of 1,900 person California detention center due to outdated COVID policy:

As California’s border forces struggle to deal with the thousands of migrants illegally flooding into the US daily, one entire detention facility is being used to house just five people.

The well-equipped Adelanto ICE Processing Center, roughly 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, can hold up to 1,940 detainees but remains almost empty. Meanwhile, the San Diego border area to the south is completely overrun, with 37,000 illegal crossers apprehended in April alone.

The facility is still under a 2020 judge’s order blocking it from taking more detainees in response to a lawsuit over the spread of COVID-19.

The order allows detainees to maintain “a social distance of six feet from each other at all times” even though such rules have been discarded at detention facilities across the rest of the country.

“If the Biden administration was serious about using detention beds, it would ask for the COVID-era court order at Adelanto to be lifted,” former Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office director John Fabbricatore told The Post.

“This situation is nearing a boiling point, as we keep allowing individuals from hostile nations to enter the United States unchecked,” he added.

San Diego arrested 10,000 migrants from 69 countries in a single week in April, according to Chief Border Patrol Agent Patricia McGurk-Daniel.

Federal sources have explained to The Post how when border sectors are overwhelmed — like San Diego, which had roughly 1,500 more migrants in custody than it has space for as of Wednesday, per sources — migrants have to be processed more quickly and are less closely scrutinized. —>READ MORE HERE

California ICE Detention Center Holding Only 5 Detainees due to Outdated COVID-19 Rule:

A detention center in California used by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is only housing five people, despite being able to hold thousands.

The Adelanto ICE Processing Center located in southern California can hold roughly 1,940 people, however, due to an outdated coronavirus policy, only five people are currently detained in the facility, according to the New York Post.

A judge ruled in September 2020 that the Adelanto ICE Processing Center should drastically reduce its inmate population, according to the Los Angeles Times. At the time, out of the 781 inmates housed at the facility, 81 had tested positive for COVID-19, nine of whom required hospitalization.

Under the order from the judge, ICE was instructed to file a “population reduction plan” to allow inmates to maintain a distance of six feet apart, “halt intake” of any more inmates to the facility, and require staff to maintain a distance of six feet apart, among other things.

Despite President Joe Biden having signed a bill in April 2023 ending the coronavirus national emergency declaration, the Adelanto ICE Processing Center is still under the judge’s order.

Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) has blasted ICE and the Department of Justice for still having the outdated policy in place and has called on both agencies to “lift” the policy.

While the Adelanto ICE Processing Center is able to hold more people, Border Patrol officials have been struggling with thousands of undocumented migrants crossing the southern border into the United States. —>READ MORE HERE

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