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ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back
(www.theguardian.com)
I couldn't get through the whole thing it's so horrible
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2026
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Some detention centers, including Otay Mesa in San Diego, have at times had particularly restrictive set-ups, with families arriving at the facilities to discover the visit involves them video conferencing with their loved one in another room, often with a poor connection, said Brané.
Republican family values, or just Trump's family values?
After auditing California City in the spring, the California department of justice said the prohibition on contact visits appeared to violate a CoreCivic policy that the company provided to the state, which stipulated that there should be opportunities for physical contact and those visits should only be restricted for “security risks”.
What kind of corporate penalty is appropriate?
“Not only are you immediately deprived of that human interaction, but what is hanging over your head is the possibility of being sent to another country, not knowing if you’ll ever hold your loved ones again,” he said.
The cruelty is the point.