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Lawmakers Conduct Unannounced Visit to Otay Mesa Detention Center but Can’t Speak with Detainees

ICE now requires lawmakers to identify detainees two business days before meetings, after a surprise oversight visit found the facility clean.

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U.S. Reps. Mike Levin and Sara Jacobs conducted an unannounced oversight visit to the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Monday, days after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., reiterated their authority — for the time being

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SAN DIEGO — On Monday, the staff of the Otay Mesa detention centre refused to allow representatives Mike Levin and Sara Jacobs to speak to the detainees during a monitoring visit, delivering a new ICE memorandum indicating that such visits should be requested two days in advance, with a proof of the consent of each detainee, indicating his name. Levin and Jacobs made an unannounced visit to the facilities just over a month after their last previ…

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CBS8 broke the news on Monday, May 11, 2026.
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