Three Arizona members of Congress paid an unannounced visit Thursday night to an ICE facility in Mesa, with one of the Democrats saying “what we saw inside this facility was shocking.”
Democrats Greg Stanton, Yassamin Ansari, and Adelita Grijalva paid the surprise visit to the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center at Mesa Gateway Airport about 9:30 p.m. April 9.
“What we saw inside this facility was shocking," Stanton said. "People lying on the floor next to each other - side by side by side on a concrete floor."
Grijalva said what she saw was “utterly horrific.
“People are being packed like animals into grossly overcrowded spaces. The conditions are horrendous; no human being should be treated like this – not in America, not anywhere.”
“What is happening here is a humanitarian failure. Oversight is not optional – it is our responsibility."
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin "must act immediately to address the overcrowding, restore basic sanitation and nutrition and provide full transparency about how this situation was allowed to escalate.”
Cells were at two- to three-times capacity, Stanton stated on Facebook, “and buses more of detainees being loaded in.
“This is Trump’s mass deportation machine in action.”
Meet Dan Dan McCarthy joined Independent Newsmedia as web content editor after a 40-plus year career as a reporter and editor in New Jersey and Arizona. During his time in Arizona, he has been an editor of daily and weekly papers in Tempe, Scottsdale, Chandler, Ahwatukee, Sun City, Sun City West, Surprise, Peoria and Glendale. Prior to moving to Arizona in 1984, when he was hired to be assistant city editor at the Tempe Daily News, he covered regional police/fire news, municipal, county and state governments in New Jersey, the latter as bureau chief at the state Capitol.
Community: He has served on several boards over the years, including the Tempe Community Action Agency and the Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital Board of Governors. He is a graduate of the Tempe Leadership and Scottsdale Leadership programs, serving as media adviser for subsequent classes of Tempe Leadership.
Education: Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism.
Random Fact: Set winter/summer track records in the 60-, 100- and 220-yard dashes at his high school in New Jersey.
Hobbies: Tai chi, cooking, dining at his must-eat-once places around the U.S. and the Cincinnati Reds, his favorite team since 1961.
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