California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these - Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield - are also located in Kern County and run by The Geo Group, another private prison operator.

Prairieland’s proximity to the Dallas area makes it more accessible for lawyers representing clients detained there, the Chavez & Valko site states. The other three facilities in the operations area of ICE’s Dallas field office are in Anson, Eden and Haskill, at least a 3-hour drive west of the Metroplex.

At a federal immigration building in downtown Los Angeles guarded by U.S. Marines, daughters, sons, aunts, nieces and others make

This type of vigilante lawlessness is emblematic of the dangers federal, state, and local law enforcement officials face every day,’ an official says.

The death of Daniel Park​, the Washington state man accused of conspiring to bomb a fertility clinic in California, is being investigated as a suicide, according to Park's former defense attorney.

This basement doesn’t exist in Russia, or Hungary, or China. It sits below an American federal building in downtown Los Angeles. Federal taxpayers’ dollars keep it running. The ongoing immigration raids in the city keep it full.