A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) detention facility took an average of more than three days to respond to sick call requests and didn’t enforce COVID-19 pandemic precautions, a watchdog found.
An unannounced remote inspection of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) La Palma Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona, last year uncovered the violations, which were made public in a report published last week by the DHS Office of Inspector General. ICE is a federal law enforcement agency that’s a component of DHS.
