Deportations led to overcrowding, strained resources at ICE facilities: state report

A report released Friday on conditions at immigration detention facilities across the state — including the Otay Mesa Detention Center — found that overcrowding is a major issue at the San Diego County facility caused by a marked increase of arrivals within the past year. The findings are contained in the California Department of Justice’s report on Otay Mesa and six other California immigration detention facilities, all of which displayed “serious concerns about these facilities&...