Mesa can’t enforce its own fire codes at an ICE facility where detainees can’t even sit down

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: April 27, 2026

Words: 1,735

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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In late January, the Mesa Fire and Medical Department responded to a medical call at a lesser known U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, where it found such severe overcrowding that it gave ICE a list of corrections it needed to make.

ICE said that the 238 people records show were detained that day at the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, located at the Mesa-Gateway Airport, was an aberration because of a measles outbreak at …

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