ICE launches 60-day evaluation of California detention facility amid GOP demands to fully reopen

ICE is launching a 60-day task order to evaluate a California processing center that has been left open with only a handful of inmates amid a lengthy legal battle.

The emergency declaration for COVID-19 was ended by the Biden administration in May, but while other facilities and prisons have opened back up, Adelanto remains limited, and only a handful of inmates live there. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.

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Republicans have accused the administration of not doing enough to challenge the order and of "enforcement malpractice" at a time when thousands of illegal immigrants are being released onto the streets each day. Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., has accused the administration of making "negligible" efforts to rectify the legal limbo and said that it should purse "all available avenues" to lift the ban.