California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield — are also located in Kern County and run by The Geo Group, another private prison operator.

The Federal Detention Center in Honolulu is one of three that have been approved to house immigrant detainees — including a jail in New York City known for violent and poor conditions that has held high profile individuals such as Ghislaine Maxwell and Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Narciso Barranco, the 48-year-old Tustin landscaper and father of three U.S. Marines who was punched in the head and detained by federal immigration agents last month — sparking a nationwide outcry — will be released on bond from the Adelanto U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center, a supporter said.

A federal immigration detention center in Los Angeles has drawn protests and a military presence since June. While interviewing the son of a man recently

This type of vigilante lawlessness is emblematic of the dangers federal, state, and local law enforcement officials face every day,’ an official says.

The death of Daniel Park​, the Washington state man accused of conspiring to bomb a fertility clinic in California, is being investigated as a suicide, according to Park's former defense attorney.

At a federal immigration building in downtown Los Angeles guarded by U.S. Marines, daughters, sons, aunts, nieces and others make