CCA Detention Center

IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAS BEEN DETAINED If someone you know has been detained by Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), then he or she is probably at the CCA Detention Center, also known as the San Diego Detention Facility. CCA is a private corporation that works under contract with ICE to house immigrant detainees. Visiting hours for family and friends are limited to the weekends and holidays, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 pm. Visitors must be identified on a visitors list by t...

Family Detention

As hope for change in Obama immigration policy dwindles, activists speculate on the fate of family detention. November 22, 2009 By Lily Keber When she first arrived in the U.S. with her two small children, Denia didn't realize she was pregnant. Fleeing an abusive relationship in Honduras, she had traveled north to the U.S. to reunite with her mother, a naturalized citizen living in Houston. But instead of reuniting with their grandmother, Denia and her daughters found themselves in a me...