Can this tiny California town do anything to kick out ICE?

California City is a tiny town that’s become home to the state’s largest ICE detention center. Residents want it gone, but the mayor is struggling to do anything about it.

Newly-opened California City ICE Detention Facility: Dangerous for Disabled People | Disability Rights California

CPH Daily Bulletin 10/29/2025

Lawsuit seeks to block expansion of #California’s largest ICE detention facility

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article312667926.html

#ICEdetention #KernCounty #CaliforniaCity #CoreCivic

Immigrants decry conditions at ex-prison, ICE's largest detention center in California

Detainees report prison-like conditions inside the California City facility and lack of access to medical care. Advocates are trying to shut it down.

Los Angeles Times

Call Senators Schiff & Padilla & your house rep

Tell them to shut down #CaliforniaCity Concentration Camp

#ICE and #CoreCivic can't hide their cruelty in the #Mojave desert

202-224-3121 (voice) 202-224-3091 (TTY)

The Guardian: "Immigrants locked up in California’s newest federal detention center have described the facility as a “a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”, saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/immigrants-california-detention-facility

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help

Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

The Guardian

CPH Daily Bulletin 9/26/2025

Detained immigrants protest over conditions inside newly opened #CaliforniaCity ICE facility

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/detained-immigrants-protest-over-conditions-212303934.html

#ICEdetention #Immigration

Detained immigrants protest over conditions inside newly opened California City ICE facility

Detained immigrants at the detention center in California City described the facility's conditions as inhumane, saying many people do not have access to...

Yahoo News

#YourTaxDollarsAtWork : #California state prison site in #KernCounty is being converted into the state’s largest #immigration #detention center under a new contract between #ICE and #PrivatePrison operator #CoreCivic. 2,560-bed facility expands ICE carceral capacity in immigrant heavy state by 36%.

Since being shuttered by #GovNewsom as a state penal facility in 2024, remote #CaliforniaCity officials had bemoaned losing the jobs and $1 million per year in revenues from #sewage and water services.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-city-largest-migrant-detention-center-20386228.php?hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2NhbGlmb3JuaWEvYXJ0aWNsZS9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLWNpdHktbGFyZ2VzdC1taWdyYW50LWRldGVudGlvbi1jZW50ZXItMjAzODYyMjgucGhw