Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Southern California lawmakers are demanding answers from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about 25 detainees who died in the custody of immigration and Customs Enforcement this year, two of whom were from Orange County.
Policy makers have cited unfit medical care and system failures at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County for a lack of quality care for detainees.
They have questioned whether the facility is capable of processing a surge in immigrants tied to President Donald Trump's push to deport undocumented immigrants.
Rep. Dave Min, D-Irvine and Rep. Judy Chu, D-Pasadena, wrote a letter to Noem asking the secretary for an explanation of the deaths of more than two dozen people while in ICE custody. The number of in-custody deaths has set an annual record, a number officials began tracking in 2018.
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