ICE detention center houses handful of inmates despite having thousands of beds: lawmaker
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A California lawmaker is calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to push the courts to allow more illegal immigrants to be held in a facility running near-to-empty
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. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
"I am alarmed at the current situation, especially since the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, which was specifically designed to house individuals in immigration detention for ICE, currently has the available capacity to house 1,932 additional detainees," he said in the letter. He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.