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Truly, this is how you have to react when first you read this headline.

California lawmakers debate sending local health inspectors inside immigration facilities

How is there a debate about something like this? I'm really curious. 

The California Department of Health inspects private nursing homes. Local health departments inspect restaurants. The state Department of Health has all sorts of information on its website about inspections of private hospitals and the California Department of Education handles inspections of every stripe for private schools.

But you're telling me there's no mechanism to inspect facilities holding illegal immigrants who have crossed our border with zero personal or medical screenings and then bee dumped into an over-crowded holding pen?

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Covid-19, mumps, and chickenpox outbreaks. Contaminated water, moldy food, and air ducts spewing black dust.

These health threats have been documented inside privately run immigration detention facilities in California through lawsuits, federal and state audits, and complaints lodged by detainees themselves.

But local public health officers who routinely inspect county jails and state prisons say they don’t have the authority under state law to inspect detention centers operated by private companies, including all six federal immigration centers in California.

These people do not bring immunization records with them. They're bringing what we immunize children against in this country. They are bringing lots of different contagions, and through their sheer numbers, they are all spreading wildly.

As usual, you articulated yourself well with Trace and succinctly pointed out serious health and cost issues. Another serious problem is the lack of beds in facilities for long term senior care for seniors on Medi-Cal. Many of the beds are occupied by non citizens, over citizens.

— Rob Smith (@RobSmith_Munich) March 15, 2024

Thanks to falling childhood vaccination rates, third-world diseases brought into this country are making a comeback.

 U.S. measles cases are nearly triple what they were last year, including 12 cases in California, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and California Department of Public Health.

The comeback of the disease once believed to be eradicated in the U.S., has alarmed health officials. Measles cases increased by 79 percent in 2023, the World Health Organization reported. The year before, the disease killed an estimated 130,000 people, mostly children, according to the World Health Organization.

The laxity and utter unconcern for America's security constantly displayed by the Biden-Harris regime at the border is only compounded when the illegals they do snatch up are corraled and confined into wreaking cesspool-like incubation colonies.

Remember this?

Biden Admin Will Not Allow Reporters To Tour Child Migrant Detention Facilities, Cite COVID-19 https://t.co/U74ZoWTpbX pic.twitter.com/53yTA7Sdqg

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 2, 2021

Well, now they don't have a COVID excuse; they just have a "we're the feds" excuse.

Same-same result. Nobody gets in to take a look-see, and that's by design.

...Immigration is regulated by the federal government. GEO Group, the country’s largest private prison contractor, runs California’s federal centers, located in four counties. Together they can house up to 6,500 people awaiting deportation or immigration hearings.

While campaigning in 2020, President Joe Biden pledged to end for-profit immigration detention. But more than 90% of the roughly 30,000 people held by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on any given day remain in private facilities, according to a 2023 analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union. Congress members in both chambers have introduced legislation to phase out private detention centers, while other lawmakers, including at least two this month, have called for investigations into substandard medical and mental health care and deaths.

Lawmakers in Washington state passed a law in 2023 to impose state oversight of private detention facilities, but the GEO Group sued and the measure is tied up in court. California lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to regulate such facilities, with mixed results.

CA tried to outlaw private detention facilities, but that was declared unconstitutional.

If they can close the loophole that somehow prevents state inspectors from getting into federal facilities even though the state officials have no enforcement mechanism for what the recommend to fix what they find wrong, there would at least be a historical record established of the deficiencies in care, etc., at the different locations.

As it is right now, ICE is responsible for all of the inspection protocols and those are shockingly few and far between for the number of people being processed and held.

...Inspections of detention centers are typically conducted by ICE employees and, up until 2022, by a private auditor. In a paper published in June, Dekker and other researchers showed that immigration officials and the auditor conducted inspections infrequently — at least once every three years — and provided limited public information about deficiencies and how they were addressed.

“There’s a lot of harm that is happening in detention centers that we are not able to document,” Dekker said.

ICE and their facilities management are insisting they're being painted as bad guys with too broad a brush, but there is little to no transparency as far as the facilities themselves, their record-keeping is shoddy in the extreme, and there's little to no documentation of any corrective actions being taken when serious problems are identified. It's all obfuscation and smoke.

Yes, ICE is overwhelmed thanks to the Biden-Harris border disaster, we all understand that. But the fact remains that these people are being held in detention which, while it shouldn't be the Roosevelt in NYC with catering, it shouldn't be a festering squalid slum, either. 

That endangers everyone.

Sunshine is the best cleanser.