ICE moved detainees out of an overcrowded Mesa facility before congressional oversight visit

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: April 9, 2026

Words: 1,998

Last Updated: 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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When Democratic Reps. Greg Stanton and Yassamin Ansari visited an Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Mesa earlier this year meant to temporarily house 157 people, it was one of the few times the facility had been under capacity in more than a month.

Just two weeks prior there were 513 people housed there in a single day. And a couple of weeks before that, there were nearly 800 people being housed in …

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