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In early June, three families —including four children—spent the entire night at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s field office in San Francisco, at 630 Sansome St., after showing up for routine check-ins.

It was a shocking story: At least 15 people, sleeping on the floor , in the holding room of an ICE field office overnight.

The holding rooms at Sansome Street are meant to be a throughpoint; people are processed there, and held until they can be sent to a longer-term detention facility, elsewhere in the state or the country.

Directives from ICE’s Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations capped the time immigrants could be detained i

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