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How ICE Moves Detainees Under the Cover of Darkness.

How Florida Has Become the Epicenter of ICE’s Shameful COVID Response.

Detainees at the Mesa Verde Detention facility stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Adelanto Detention Facility is again in the center of controversy, allegedly using protests taking place outside the facility as an excuse to mistreat detainees.

Arizona has a long history of being home to numerous detention facilities, and currently, the state can hold as many as 7,000 detainees at one time. And perhaps its most dubious distinction is that since 2003, 19 detainees have died within Arizona's detention centers.

Limited protective gear and medical attention, dubious punitive and transfer practices, and crowded conditions that make social distancing almost impossible have all contributed to an environment at Otay Mesa rife for the spread of the virus. But so far detainees’ pleas for help have gone unheeded.