Khanna clip cited on Megatrends calls California detention facility 'systematically negligent'
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Summary
Megatrends aired a clip attributed to Rep. Ro Khanna saying conditions at California City Detention Center (operated by CoreCivic) are inhumane; the host relayed facility capacity figures cited in the clip and noted a judge ordered ICE to stop holding immigrants at a San Francisco site due to conditions.
On the Jan. 15 episode of Megatrends, host Pat Fahey summarized and played a clip attributed to Representative Ro Khanna about conditions at what Fahey described as California's largest ICE holding center near Bakersfield.
According to the segment, Rep. Ro Khanna said he left the facility "with a profound sense of urgency, concern and moral responsibility" and called the California City Detention Center a "horror show" that is "systematically negligent." Fahey said the facility is a shuttered state prison now run by CoreCivic and cited on-air figures that the center currently holds 1,428 detainees with a scheduled capacity of 2,500.
Fahey also referenced a federal judge's order removing detainees from an ICE site at 630 Sansom Street in San Francisco because of inhumane conditions. The program did not include a direct statement from CoreCivic, ICE or the Department of Justice during the broadcast.
The segment framed the conditions at the facility as evidence of systemic failures in private detention operations and called attention to judicial interventions that, according to the clip and Fahey's summary, have limited certain ICE detentions.