About 200 immigrants who arrived for annual ICE check-ins were taken into custody after nearby detention center reached capacity
From Los Angeles to New York, hundreds of people who appeared for standard appointments at federal buildings have been held for days as immigration authorities work to meet quotas widely pushed by senior Trump administration officials, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who has urged the agency to make at least 3,000 arrests nationwide each day.
Multiple reports indicate that this tactic has been in place for weeks, leading to hundreds of people being confined in makeshift detention facilities. As Border Report noted on Oct. 22, that has been the case in San Diego.
According to the outlet, about 200 immigrants who arrived for annual check-ins with ICE were detained and are being held in the basement of the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego.
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One attorney said the immigrants being held do not appear in ICE’s detainee locator database and that families have been unable to obtain information about their loved ones.
Another attorney, who requested anonymity, said her clients were kept in rooms with extreme temperatures and forced to share bathrooms without privacy. She added that those being held were not provided medical care or edible food while confined in the basement.
