As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests surge across the country, the agency is expanding its network of detention centers to keep up, from the new California City Detention Facility in the Mojave Desert to Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades. 

Nearly 60,000 migrants are currently held in ICE detention centers, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, up 60% from this time last year.

Here in the Bay Area, where ICE doesn’t operate any detention facilities, immigrants are being sent hundreds of miles from home, to places such as Bakersfield, the small Kern County farming town of McFarland, and now, California City, the largest detention center in the state.

For the Rev. Deborah Lee, however, out of sight doesn’t mean

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