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Adelanto residents press council to cut ties with GEO-operated ICE processing center
Summary
Dozens of residents urged the Adelanto City Council to end any association with the Adelanto ICE Processing Center and the GEO Group, calling for withdrawal of permits, transparency about past communications, and a non-cooperation ordinance; council members agreed to place related items on future agendas and to pursue a meeting with facility officials.
Dozens of residents used the City Council public-comment period on June 11 to demand the city end its association with the Adelanto ICE Processing Center and GEO Group and to block future cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Speakers described alleged abuses inside the facility and urged specific steps: withdrawing any conditional-use permit that allows the center to operate, refusing future agreements with private detention companies, and passing a local non-cooperation ordinance to bar city support for ICE operations. “This facility has long been documented as a site of abuse, medical neglect, and…
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