Adelanto, CA — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after conducting an unannounced oversight visit to the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center to inspect conditions at one of the largest immigration detention facilities in the country.
“President Trump and his inhumane deportations have separated families and created chaos for communities across the country. And now DHS is buying this facility for hundreds of millions of dollars to escape state and local oversight. We will continue fighting to defend the rights and protect the dignity of everyone in immigration detention,” said Ranking Member Robert Garcia.
In July 2026, Congressman Robert Garcia demanded answers from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) regarding the vetting and training of ICE officers in the wake of the killing of Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero on July 13, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine.
In May 2026, Ranking Member Garcia held an immigration round table in Orlando, and visited an Orlando ICE facility with Congressman Maxwell Frost.
In February 2026, Ranking Member Garcia released a report highlighting Oversight Democrats’ key findings regarding the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Both victims were killed while bearing witness to the abuses and injustices on their neighbors by the Trump Administration’s aggressive, violent, and unlawful immigration enforcement tactics.
In December 2025, Ranking Member Garcia and Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal launched a series of bicameral hearings to expose and investigate abuses, excessive force, and constitutional violations by federal immigration enforcement agents.
In November 2025, Ranking Member Garcia led Oversight Democrats in launching a public Immigration Enforcement Dashboard to track and document incidents of abuse and potential misconduct by DHS immigration enforcement agents across the country.
In July 2025, Ranking Member Garcia signed on as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for unlawfully obstructing congressional oversight at federal immigration detention facilities, to ensure Members could fulfill their Constitutional right to access ICE facilities for oversight.
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