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In this Aug. 28, 2019, photo, a guard stands in the intake area at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif. In a wind-whipped California desert town, a sprawling facility can house nearly 2,000 immigrant detainees facing the prospect of deportation. These days, however, the privately-run detention center in Adelanto is nearly empty. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Immigration detention facility near empty in California

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In this June 3, 2020 file photo members of the District of Columbia Army National Guard stand guard at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington securing the area as protests continue following the death of George Floyd, a who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. An Ohio National Guardsman was removed from policing protests in Washington D.C. after the FBI found he expressed white supremacist ideology online, Gov. Mike DeWine announced in a briefing Friday, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trucker convoy hits the road in California, heads for D.C. area

By Eugene Garcia - Associated Press

Lucian Ibarra, left, the sister of Jose Luis Ibarra Bucio, and Melissa Castro, Bucio's wife, talk about the impact of his loss Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Los Angeles. Ibarra's family took him off life support on March 20, more than a month after he experienced a medical episode while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement east of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)

Family seeks answers in immigrant’s death after detention

By AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 20, 2015 file photo, Paul Murray of Santa Barbara, Calif., demonstrates with others outside Adelanto Detention Facility in Adelanto, Calif. For nearly eight years, Adelanto has joined with a private prison company and federal officials to run California's largest immigration detention facility. Now, the city of Adelanto is backing out of its contract to run the 1,900 bed facility amid complaints of shoddy conditions and inadequate medical care. But ending the deal won't necessarily shutter the center and rather, could pave the way for its expansion. (James Quigg/The Victor Valley Daily Press via AP, File)

California sees shift in immigration detention contracts

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Latest: Report: Man dies after stint at detention facility

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FILE - This May 19, 2015, file photo shows the Adelanto Detention Center in Adelanto, Calif., a desert community 70 miles (113 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles. Federal inspectors found nooses made from bedsheets hanging in more than a dozen cells during an inspection in May, 2018, The OIG issued a scathing report after visiting the privately-run detention facility run by the GEO Group. There were at least seven suicide attempts at the facility between December 2016 and October 2017, and a 32-year-old man killed himself by hanging in March 2017, according to the report. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP, File)

Nooses found in California immigration detention center

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