Sent via email on August 15, 2024 to DHS CRCL

Immigrant justice groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Liberties on behalf of a group of immigrants who were attacked by guards who raided the A4 dormitory of the Golden State Annex ICE Detention Center in McFarland, California early in the morning of April 15, 2024. During the raid, guards working for the for-profit prison contractor GEO Group physically assaulted the people in their custody, destroyed their personal property, used pepper spray indiscriminately, verbally abused them and committed additional violations, sanctioned by–if not also committed by– U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The complaint was filed on behalf of the immigrants by the ACLU of Northern California, the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.