The two Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats joined their colleagues urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to reverse course on policies known to create unconstitutional detention conditions
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.) called on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to convene an urgent hearing on the Trump Administration’s recent decision to detain immigrants without charges or convictions in federal prisons, including in California, after a whistleblower from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) raised the alarm on its negative impact on BOP employees in a statement shared with the Senators.
“BOP facilities are not immigration detention facilities. Our employees have not been trained to house detainees of this nature. We are equipped to handle individuals who have had due process and are coming to pay their debt to society. The needs and situations of immigrant detainees are very different, and this is not in line with our employment contracts,” wrote the whistleblower.
“To put it plainly, this is inhumane. It seems like both fear of Donald Trump and the need for revenue are driving these decisions,” continued the whistleblower. “But the bottom line is that BOP employees did not sign up for this. We have not been trained for this. We are not being paid for this. And it is not in our contracts. This abuse of resources and of my colleagues seems to be for nothing more than political gain.”
The Senators wrote...
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