The Trump administration seems to be considering a plan to send immigrants who have deported themselves to a recently closed federal prison, which was plagued by sexual abuse in such a way that it was referred to as the “rape club”.
About 20 miles east of Oakland, The Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin closed last yearAfter more than half a dozen prison officers and the former supervisor, female inmates were charged either for sexual abuse.
At the moment, the Federal Bureau of Prison's website shows that no occupants in the facility were held in the facility-the long-term fate of the complex has never been clear.
But on Thursday, the American Federation of Government Employees Council of Prison -Home No. 33, which represents federal employees, sent an information application to the prison system and called for data in relation to the closure of the facilities. A few paragraphs in the four -sided request expressed concerns about the future of the facility.
“The FCI Dublin completed at least one rating on July 22, 2024, which we believe was” regarded as a “structural assessment”, the letter says. “The union has learned that this assessment of ice cream for the apparently the potential of the ice cream was made available to take over the facility.”
The move takes place days after the prisons have confirmed that it is held in some facilities in the prisoners in the migrants in prisoners, an admission that triggered the concerns of union officials who apparently appear that the office Migrants prepared on a mass scale.
“I'm afraid that the office will only be a branch of the ice cream – but that's not what we are doing,” John Kostelnik, Vice President of the Western region for the judicial worker union, told The Times. “Our primary focus should always be to protect the community from convicted murderers and rapists, and our employees do an enormous job, even if he deals with the personnel crisis.
“But now we have an additional mission on ourselves,” he said, “that could paralyze our ability to do what we should do.”
Although the prison office in an e -mail confirmed that it “supported the United States immigration and customs authority through accommodation in prisoners,” refused the spokesman for the prison to provide information about the legal status of the prisoners or where they are accommodated.
A prison spokesman quoted “security reasons” to reject a comment, while another referred all questions related to immigration to ice.
In an e -mail on Wednesday afternoon, ICE announced that his “improved enforcement processes” initiated sufficient arrests to “require greater prison capacity”, although the agency did not provide any information about what this was done.
“Although we cannot confirm individual preliminary talks,” says the explanation, “we can confirm that ICE examines all options to meet the current and future prison requirements.”
In the past few weeks, the Trump government has started to increase the immigration authorities nationwide and promised to deport itself “Millions and millions” From people back to their home countries. According to the Associated Press, ICE has the budget to hold only about 41,000 people.
As a rule, these prisoners are captured in ice processing centers, private prison facilities and local prisons who conclude with federal immigration officers. However, the officers have started to entertain un testated alternatives with the more ambitious deportation of the new administration.
This month the US military began to free flights of detained migrants to the Base of the US Navy in Guantanamo Bay, Cubaand El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele offered to send us civil servants migrants – Just like US citizens – in the notoriously hard prisons of his country.
The first signs of the White House that had planned imprisoned migrants in the US federal prisons in the US states came at the end of the last month.
On January 26, the union management wrote to Senator Alex Padilla's office and warned the state's senator that Trump -Beams had started to head the prison office in order to create more inmates in facilities across the country.
“The Trump administration currently has BOP by examining bedlaspace and the facilities to consolidate the inmates to make space (entire units),” the letter says.
The last time when Cutelnik said, was during Trump's first term. At that time, BOP officials were forced to create space for 1,600 immigrants – including many asylum seekers – in federal prisons in Oregon, California, Arizona and Texas.
Until August 2018 – two months after Federal Officials had publicly confirmed the controversial housing construction – The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuitWith the claim that it is a violation of the proper process rights of migrants in the context of the 5th change. Until October, The administration showed news reports had declined the use of federal prisons to accommodate prisoners to migrants.
However, according to the Kostelnik, these few months proved to be prisoners and prison staff who protect migrants, of whom many different medical needs and cultural backgrounds had as typical prisoners of the office. Communication sometimes became a challenge because many prisoners do not speak English or another language that was spoken by the prison staff.
“I'm afraid that this will come soon,” he wrote to Padilla's office in January in January, “and all facilities in CA are currently being moved, and you will even receive our bus crews and specialized teams for similar missions.”
The first federal prison in California in which migrants were imprisoned seems to have been the metropolitan detention center in the city center of Los Angeles. According to two officials familiar with the situation, a weekend with a group of about nine migrants from Africa occurred. The officials asked for anonymity because they were not justified to speak publicly.
At first, the prison staff were not sure whether they should accept the prisoners or how to best keep them separately from other prisoners. Finally, they put the men into their own unity in their own unity and create additional work for the staff, of whom an official had no instructions, how migrants can handle differently than typical federal prisoners.
The official also said that the number of migrants accommodated in the La Lockup did not increase, but it was expected that higher ups had started to adjust the shortage of personnel for more weekend recordings.
It is not clear how many other facilities were commissioned to migrants, but last week The Associated Press reported For this purpose, a federal prison in Miami and a federal prison in Atlanta is also used -and internal BOP -E emails are likely to show that more facilities will follow.
In the past few days, federal prison officers have started to ask the workers to think about temporary tasks elsewhere in order to manage the influx of ice -prisoners.
On Monday, a captain of the FCI Sheridan and medium-proof facility in Oregon-Die employees sent an email there to put together volunteers who were ready to work all over the country at FCI Berlin at least 500 migrants from ice.
“The employees will work in the mission of the BOP mission of the correctional services to temporarily accommodate the ICE prisoners,” said captain Joseph Cerone, according to a copy of the e -mail received by the Times. “In view of more than 500 prisoners who go to Berlin, they will probably need support in terms of health services and psychology in addition to custody.”
In the e -mail it was not stated when the immigrants are expected to arrive.
The influx of prisoners could put a strain on the already aspiring federal prison system, which has long been plagued by violence and abuse. Maybe especially with FCI Dublin, This was one of several institutions that the office provided last year for closure or deactivation.
But it may not be the only one that is intended for the use of ICE. On Wednesday, the Times said that he had just learned that immigration officers should visit a federal institution in Morgantown – which also aimed at the closure – for an assessment like that in Dublin.
“To an already tense and outstretched staff,” said Kostelnik to The Times.