Otay Mesa Detention Center

Immigrants at the Otay Mesa detention center tell Telemundo 20 they were tested for COVID-19 two weeks ago and have yet to receive physical proof of their results. Detainees said officials are mixing people with COVID-19 symptoms with those who show no signs of the virus. According to Omar Humberto Mayares, a Mexican national detained at the center, the fear…

Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego was the site of the first big outbreak at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 221 detention centers

An immigrant detainee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center is alleging that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are failing to protect detainees from an “uncontrollable outbreak” of COVID-19 inside the facility.

Questions have been raised about the COVID-19 mitigation measures at the Otay Mesa Detention Facility. NBC 7’s Tania Luviano reports.

A Los Angeles legal aid organization is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other governmental agencies, seeking to compel the release of records regarding COVID-19 outbreaks at immigration detention centers and Border Patrol stations. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Los Angeles under the Freedom of Information Act by Al Otro Lado and the Edwin...

A San Diego federal judge refused on Tuesday to release 34 “medically vulnerable” detainees from the Otay Mesa Detention Center, which has the largest COVID-19 outbreak among the nation’s U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facilities.

Dozens of protesters in their cars, honked horns and circled in front of the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Sunday to demand the release of detainees amid a Coronavirus outbreak.

Protesters say the government has mishandled COVID-19 outbreaks in detention centers. NBC 7’s Ramon Galindo has more.

Migrant rights activists gathered on Saturday to commemorate the life of the first immigrant detainee who died of COVID-19 this week. Their message was clear: that the death of this immigrant not be left in vain. Dozens of people came together to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release other migrants who might be inside the Otay Mesa Detention…

NBC 7’s Niala Charles was the Otay Mesa Detention Center as a vigil was held for Carlos.

A detainee who was at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and died from complications of COVID-19 has been identified by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Carlos Escobar-Mejia, 57, from El Salvador was pronounced dead on May 6 at 2:15 a.m. at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, where he had been hospitalized since April 24, ICE said in a release….

“He was a loving brother, a person who cared about others, a person that wanted to cheer you up regardless of what was going on in his life.”

A detainee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center died from complications of COVID-19, San Diego County health officials confirmed Wednesday. The detainee was a 57-year-old male who was hospitalized in late April, according to Dr. Eric McDonald, Medical Director with the County Epidemiology Immunization Branch. The detainee died early Wednesday. This marked the first reported death from the virus among…

County officials confirmed the death during its press briefing on May 6, 2020.

A federal judge today, May 4, ordered the release of more than 72 detainees from the Otay Mesa Federal Detention Center.  A detainee inside Otay Mesa Federal Detention Center said the number could be much higher. By phone, detainee Anthony Alexandre told NBC 7 Investigates that prison administrators informed him that approximately 150 detainees will be released as a result…

An inmate at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, which houses detained immigrants, says sick inmates are denied adequate medical care, that staff are not passing out masks, and he fears that people will soon start dying if nothing changes.  Over the course of the past three days, the number of detainees who tested positive for COVID-19 has increased. On...

A San Diego federal judge ordered on Thursday that a group of “medically vulnerable” detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center be screened for release amid a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.

Inmate at Otay Mesa Detention in California center says more than 100 detainees and dozens of employees sick with COVID-19

The American Civil Liberties Union’s San Diego chapter filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday calling for a drastic reduction in the number of detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, where a COVID-19 outbreak has infected both detainees and staff members. The ACLU is also seeking an emergency temporary restraining order demanding the immediate release of all Otay Mesa detainees...