Adelanto

WEEK 4

(Games at 7 pm. unless noted)

THURSDAY’S SCHEDULE

CITY SECTION

East Valley League

Arleta at Grant

Monroe at North Hollywood

Sun Valley Poly at Fulton, 3:30 p.m.

Verdugo Hills at Chavez

Nonleague

Maywood CES at Roybal

SOUTHERN SECTION

Golden League

Littlerock at Eastside

Pacific League

Glendale at Muir

Nonleague

Azusa at Temple City

Bassett at Keppel

Cerritos at Anaheim Canyon

Cerritos Valley Christian at St. Anthony

Citrus Valley at Norco, 7:30 p.m.

Colton at Arlington

Gahr at Los Altos

Hemet at Adelanto, 7:30 p.m.

Hillcrest at Paloma Valley

Hoover at Arcadia

Irvine at La Palma Kennedy

La Canada at Maranatha

Lynwood at Westminster La Quinta

Marina at Esperanza

Moreno Valley at La Sierra, 7:30 p.m.

Rialto at Banning

Rim of the World at Bloomington

Santa Clara at Duarte

Santa Monica at Gardena, 4 p.m.

Sierra Canyon at Orange Lutheran

Temecula Prep at Rubidoux, 7:30 p.m.

Yucaipa at Palm Springs, 7:30 p.m.

INTERSECTIONAL

Carlsbad La Costa Canyon at Murrieta Mesa

Gardena at Santa Monica, 4 p.m.

Desert Mirage at Mendez

North Torrance at Carson

Westlake at Venice

8-MAN

CITY SECTION

Nonleague

Sherman Oaks CES at Stella

SOUTHERN SECTION

Heritage League

Lancaster Baptist at Milken

Nonleague

Southlands Christian at Noli Indian, 6:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE

CITY SECTION

Eastern League

Bell at Huntington Park

L.A. Roosevelt at South Gate

Legacy at Garfield

Valley Mission League

Canoga Park at Panorama

Reseda at San Fernando

Van Nuys at Granada Hills Kennedy

Nonleague

Angelou at Locke

Contreras at Santee

Eagle Rock at Taft

Granada Hills at Fairfax

Jefferson at Firebaugh

King-Drew at Westchester

Los Angeles at L.A. University, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Jordan at L.A. Marshall, 4 p.m.

Manual Arts at Lincoln

Maywood CES at Roybal

Palisades at El Camino Real

Rancho Dominguez at L.A. Hamilton

Rivera at Fremont

Sylmar at Chatsworth

West Adams at Santee

SOUTHERN SECTION

Camino Real League

Bosco Tech at St. Genevieve

St. Bernard at St. Monica

Foothill League

Canyon Country Canyon vs. Golden Valley at Canyon

Saugus vs. Hart at College of the Canyons

Valencia vs. West Ranch at Valencia

Golden League

Antelope Valley at Knight

Highland at Quartz Hill

Palmdale at Lancaster

Manzanita League

California Military Institute at Bermuda Dunes Desert Christian

Desert Chapel at Nuview Bridge

San Jacinto Valley Academy at Vasquez

Mission Valley League

Arroyo at El Monte

Gabrielino at Rosemead

South El Monte at Mountain View

Moore League

Lakewood at Compton

Long Beach Cabrillo at Millikan

Long Beach Poly at Long Beach Jordan

Pacific League

Burbank at Crescenta Valley

Hoover at Arcadia

Pasadena at Burbank Burroughs

Nonleague

Agoura at Buena

Arrowhead Christian at Jurupa Valley

Arroyo Valley at Cathedral City

Artesia at San Gabriel

Ayala at Glendora

Baldwin Park at Monrovia

Barstow at Ridgecrest Burroughs

Bassett at Keppel

Beaumont at Vista Murrieta

Beckman at Woodbridge

Big Bear at Desert Hot Springs

Bishop Amat at Upland

Bolsa Grande at Corona

Bonita at Schurr

California at Bell Gardens

Capistrano Valley Christian at St. Margaret’s

Cathedral at Chaminade

Century at Costa Mesa

Chaffey at Victor Valley

Chino at Don Lugo

Corona Centennial at Rancho Cucamonga

Crespi at Oak Park

Damien at Salesian

Dana Hills at Tesoro

Dominguez at Compton Centennial

Dos Pueblos at Ventura

Eastvale Roosevelt at Corona Santiago

Edison at Fountain Valley

Eisenhower at Hesperia

El Rancho at Fontana

El Segundo at Torrance

Elsinore at Norte Vista

Etiwanda at Bishop Diego

Fillmore at Carpinteria

Foothill at Capistrano Valley

Gahr at Los Altos

Garden Grove Pacifica at Aliso Niguel

Garden Grove Santiago at Ocean View

Glenn at Westminster La Quinta

Grace at Brentwood

Granite Hills at Los Alamitos

Great Oak at Chaparral

Hemet at Adelanto

Hillcrest at Paloma Valley

Indian Springs at Citrus Hill

Inglewood at Downey

Irvine University at Garden Grove

Jurupa Hills at Rancho Mirage

Kaiser at Cantwell-Sacred Heart

La Habra at La Mirada

La Salle at Claremont

La Serna at Crean Lutheran

Laguna Beach at El Dorado

Leuzinger at JSerra

Linfield Christian at Carter

Los Osos at Sultana

Mary Star at Lawndale

Mayfair at Huntington Beach

Montebello at San Marino

Newport Harbor at Colony

Nordhoff at Beverly Hills

Northview at Covina

Oak Hills at St. Bonaventure

Oaks Christian at Gardena Serra

Ontario at Montclair

Orange at Redondo Union

Oxnard at Rio Mesa

Pacific at Heritage

Palm Desert at Redlands

Paramount at Norwalk

Perris at Grand Terrace

Pioneer at Estancia

Placentia Valencia at Walnut

Portola at Northwood

Ramona at Riverside Poly

Rancho Alamitos at Godinez

Rio Hondo Prep at Bellflower

Riverside King at Murrieta Valley

Riverside North at Redlands East Valley

Riverside Prep at Whittier Christian

Rowland at Nogales

Royal at Del Sol

Saddleback at Westminster La Quinta

San Clemente at Chino Hills

San Gorgonio at Indio

San Jacinto at Cajon

San Juan Hills at Mira Costa

San Marcos at Santa Barbara

Santa Ana Valley at Santa Ana

Santa Rosa Academy at San Bernardino

Savanna at Garey

Shadow Hills at Patriot

Sierra Vista at Lakeside

Silverado at Ontario Christian

South Hills at Santa Fe

South Torrance at Hawthorne

St. Francis at Loyola

Sunny Hills at Sonora

Tahquitz at Liberty

Temescal Canyon at Temecula Valley

Thousand Oaks at Simi Valley

Trabuco Hills at Brea Olinda

Troy at Segerstrom

Tustin at Yorba Linda

Twentynine Palms at West Valley

Valley View at Heritage Christian

Village Christian at Paraclete

Warren at Culver City

West Torrance at Cypress

Western at San Dimas

Whittier at Magnolia

Yucca Valley at Xavier Prep

INTERSECTIONAL

Alhambra at LA Wilson

Bakersfield at Dorsey

Bernstein at Ganesha

Calabasas at Birmingham

El Cajon Granite Hills at Los Alamitos

El Centro Central at Coachella Valley

El Toro at Henderson (NV) Foothill, 6 p.m.

Franklin at South Pasadena

Hawkins at Viewpoint

Honolulu (HI) St. Louis at St. John Bosco

Jefferson at Firebaugh

Marquez at La Puente

Mater Dei at Las Vegas (NV) Bishop Gorman

Mission Viejo at Chattanooga (TN) McCallie, 4 p.m.

Oceanside El Camino at Apple Valley

Orange Vista at Vista

Pueblo (CO) Central at Moorpark

Rancho Buena Vista at Fullerton

San Diego Clairemont at Buena Park

San Diego Kearny at Anza Hamilton

San Diego Rancho Bernardo at West Covina

San Pedro vs. El Modena at SoFi Stadium, 5 p.m.

Santa Paula at Narbonne

Silver Valley at California City

Verbum Dei at Belmont

Wilmington Banning at Palos Verdes

8-MAN

CITY SECTION

Nonleague

New Designs Watts at Valley Oaks CES

SOUTHERN SECTION

Academy for Careers & Exploration at United Christian

Cornerstone Christian at Sage Hill, 5 p.m.

Legacy College Prep at Santa Ana Magnolia Science, 3 p.m.

Lighthouse Christian at Calvary Baptist

Thacher at Hillcrest Christian, 6:30 p.m.

Vista Meridian at Villanova Prep

INTERSECTIONAL

Chadwick at Animo Jackie Robinson

East Valley at Malibu, 6:30 p.m.

Highland Entrepreneur at Ridgecrest Immanuel Christian

Trona at PAL Charter, 3 p.m.

Victor Valley Christian at Valley Oaks CES

SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE

SOUTHERN SECTION

Channel Islands at Webb

Desert Mirage at Verbum Dei, 1:30 p.m.

Riverside Notre Dame at Aquinas

8-MAN

SOUTHERN SECTION

Nonleague

Coast Union at Cate, 1 p.m.

Faith Baptist at Flintridge Prep, 5 p.m.

Hemet River Springs at Downey Calvary Chapel, 5 p.m.

Laguna Blanca at Cuyama Valley

Rolling Hills Prep at Avalon, 1 p.m.

INTERSECTIONAL

Escondido Calvin Christian at California Lutheran

Fresno Christian vs. Santa Clarita Christian at Hart, 6:30 p.m.

Rep. Judy Chu first went inside the immigrant detention center in Adelanto in 2014, and conditions were bad.

When she made it back inside the privately run facility in the Mojave desert last week, things weren’t much better.

“It is just scandalous as to how it has not improved,” she told me.

Truth be told, conditions are likely to get worse, if only because of sheer numbers and chaos. Which makes it all the more important to have elected leaders like Chu willing to put themselves on the front lines to give a voice to the truly, really voiceless.

As tens of thousands of immigrants are chased down and incarcerated across the United States, oversight of their detention has become both increasingly difficult and important.

Shortly after the unannounced visit to Adelanto by Chu and four other members of Congress a few days ago, ICE announced new rules attempting to further limit access by lawmakers to its facilities — despite clear federal law allowing them unannounced entrance to such lockups. While Chu and others have called these new curbs on access illegal, they are still likely to be enforced until and unless courts rule otherwise.

The narrow, fragile line of the judicial branch is holding, for now.

But families and even lawyers are struggling to keep track of those who vanish into these facilities, many of which — including Adelanto — are operated by private, for-profit companies raking in millions of dollars from the government.

GEO Group, the publicly traded company that runs Adelanto, has reported more than $600 million in revenue so far this year and projects $31 million in additional annualized revenue from Adelanto at full capacity. Maybe DOGE wants to look into the fact that GEO often gets paid a “guaranteed minimum,” according to a report by the California Department of Justice — regardless of how many detainees are in a facility. Sounds like waste.

When the Trump administration started its attack on Los Angeles a few weeks ago, Chu started receiving calls from her constituents asking for help. She represents Altadena, Pasadena and other areas where there are large populations of immigrants, and as the daughter of an immigrant, she relates.

Her mom came here from China as a 19-year-old bride. Chu’s dad was born in the United States.

“I feel such a heavy responsibility to change things for them, to change things for the better,” she said. “I am surrounded by immigrants every day. This is a district of immigrants. My relatives are immigrants. My friends are immigrants. Yes, my life is immigrants.”

A few days ago, she tried to visit the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where many of the recent protests have been focused, and where many of the people detained in Los Angeles have reportedly been held at first. She’d heard that even though it’s not meant to be more than a stopover, folks have been staying there longer.

“The fact that these raids are so severe, so massive, it just seems very obvious to me that they would not be treating the detainees in a humane way. And that’s what I wanted to find out,” she told me.

But no luck. Authorities turned her away at the door.

So a few days later she decided to show up unannounced — which is her right as a federal lawmaker — at Adelanto.

Guess what: No luck.

Officers there chained the gate shut, she said, and wouldn’t even talk to her.

“To actually just be locked out like that was unbelievable,” she said. “We shouted that we were members of Congress. We held signs up saying that we were members of Congress, and in fact, there was a car parked only a few feet away inside the facility. The job of that person was just to watch us. Wow.”

Wow indeed.

Undeterred, she came back a few days later when the gate was unlocked. This time, she drove straight inside, not asking permission.

Her staff “deliberately dropped me off inside the lobby before they knew that we were there,” she said.

She got out at the front door and was granted entry.

“The ICE agent said, ‘Oh, well, we thought you were protesters the time before,’” she said. “And that cannot be true, you know, considering all of our yelling and signs. But anyway.”

She was armed with the names of people from her district who had been detained, and she asked to see them. She got to speak to some of them, but everyone wanted her help. At the start of the year, Adelanto held only a handful of people, having been nearly closed by a court order during COVID-19. Now it holds about 1,100, and can take up to about 1,900.

“These detainees were jumping up and down trying to get our attention,” she said. What they told her was disturbing, and casually cruel. No ability to change clothes for 10 days. Filthy showers. No access to telephones because they need a PIN number and no matter how many times they request one, it never seems to materialize. No idea how long they would be held, or what would happen next.

“It could be weeks,” she said. “It could be years.”

Vanished.

“It is horrendous,” she said. “And it is ripping our communities apart,”

Indeed it is, especially in Southern California, where immigrants — documented and not — are entwined in the fabric of our lives and our communities.

Which is why people like Chu are so vital to what happens next. Not enough of our lawmakers have spoken up, much less taken action, against the erosion of civil rights and legal norms currently underway. Chu has spent a decade trying to bring accountability to immigration detention and knows this sordid industry better than any. It’s work that many never notice but that matters to the families whose loved ones are scooped up and disappeared into a system that, even in its best days, is convoluted.

“These are not the criminals and rapists that Trump promised he would get rid of,” Chu said. “These are hard-working people who are trying to make a living and doing their best to support their families. These are your friends and neighbors, and as we’ve seen, U.S. citizens have also been arrested. So next it could be you.”

Or her. Other lawmakers have been arrested and charged for attempting to enter detention centers on the East Coast, and Sen. Alex Padilla was knocked over and handcuffed recently for interrupting a news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

We are in the era when questions are often met with mockery or silence — or even violence — from authorities, and everyday champions are vital. Propaganda and lies have become the norms, and few have the ability to bear witness to truth inside places of state power such as detention centers.

So it’s also an era when having people who will stand up in the face of increasing fear and chaos is the difference between being vanished for who-knows-how-long and being found.

Even if it’s inside Adelanto.

ADELANTO, Calif. — As federal immigration agents conduct mass raids across Southern California, the Adelanto ICE Processing Center is filling so rapidly it is reigniting longtime concerns about safety conditions inside the facility.

In less than two months, the number of detainees in the sprawling complex about 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles has surged from around 300 near the end of April to more than 1,200 as of Wednesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

The largest detention center in California, Adelanto has for years been the focus of complaints from detainees, attorneys and state and federal inspectors about inadequate medical care, overly restrictive segregation and lax mental health services.

But now, critics — including some staff who work inside — warn that conditions inside have become increasingly unsafe and unsanitary. The facility, they say, is woefully unprepared to handle a massive increase in the number of detainees.

“It’s dangerous,” a longtime Adelanto detention center staff member told The Times, speaking on condition of anonymity because they did not want to lose their job. “We have no staffing for this and not enough experienced staff. They’re just cutting way too many corners, and it affects the safety of everybody in there.”

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), toured Adelanto with four other Democratic members of Congress from California amid growing concern over the rapidly increasing number of detainees and deteriorating conditions inside the facility.

The facility’s manager “has to clearly improve its treatment of these detainees,” Chu said at a news conference after inspecting the facility for nearly two hours.

Some detainees told lawmakers they were held inside Adelanto for 10 days without a change of clothes, underwear or towels, Chu said. Others said they had been denied access to a telephone to speak to loved ones and lawyers, even after repeatedly filling out forms.

“I was just really shocked to hear that they couldn’t get a change of underwear, they couldn’t get socks for 10 days,” Chu told The Times. “They can’t get the PIN number for a telephone call. What about their legal rights? What about the ability to be in contact with their families? That is inhumane.”

Immigration Customs and Enforcement and GEO Group, the Florida-based private prison corporation that manages the Adelanto detention center, did not answer The Times’ questions about staffing or conditions inside the facility. The Times also sent questions to Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin, but they were not answered.

Over the last two weeks, new detainees have been forced to sleep on the floors of common areas without blankets and pillows and have spent days in the facility before they were provided with clean clothes and underwear, according to interviews with current detention center staff, immigration attorneys, and members of Congress who toured the facility. Some detainees have complained about lack of access to medication, lack of access to drinking water for four hours, and being served dinner as late as 10 p.m.

One detainee was not allowed his high blood pressure pills when family tried to bring it in, said Jennifer Norris, a staff attorney at Immigrant Defenders Law Center. In some cases, she said, lax medical care has led to emergencies: a Vietnamese man passed out last week because staff didn’t provide him with his necessary medication.

“It’s clear that with the ramp up enforcement, Adelanto just does not have the staff to keep pace with the aggressive enforcement that’s happening now,” Norris said. “It is bizarre. We spend millions of dollars on ICE detention and they’re not even able to provide basic necessities for the new arrivals.”

Long before Trump administration officials announced in May they were setting a new national goal of arresting 3,000 unauthorized immigrants a day, Adelanto workers worried about understaffing and unsafe conditions as the center processed new detainees.

At the end of last year, the facility held only three people. As of Wednesday, the number had swelled to 1,218, according to the ACLU of Southern California.

The climb is only partly due to the ICE agents’ recent escalation of immigrant raids.

The 1,940-bed Adelanto facility has been operating at a dramatically reduced capacity since 2020 when civil rights groups filed a class-action lawsuit demanding a drastic reduction in the number of people detained at Adelanto on the basis that they faced severe risk of contracting COVID-19. A federal judge forced the detention center to release detainees and prohibit new intakes and transfers.

But a series of federal court orders this year — the most recent in early June — has allowed the facility to fully reopen just as federal immigration agents fan out into neighborhoods and workplaces.

“As soon as the judge lifted the order, they just started slamming people in there,” an Adelanto staffer told The Times.

Eva Bitrán, director of immigrant rights at the ACLU of Southern California, said “almost everybody” held in the Adelanto facility had no criminal record before they arrived in the detention center.

“But even if they had a criminal record, even if they had served their time in criminal custody and then been brought to the ICE facility, nobody deserves 10 days in the same underwear,” Bitrán said. “Nobody deserves dirty showers, nobody deserves moldy food.”

Mario Romero, an Indigenous worker from Mexico who was detained June 6 at the Ambiance Apparel warehouse in downtown L.A., was one of dozens who ended up in Adelanto.

His daughter, Yurien Contreras, said she and her family were traumatized after her father was “chained by the hands, feet and waist,” taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center downtown and then “held hostage” in a van from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. with no access to water, food or a restroom.

“Little did we know,” she said, “it was only the beginning of the inhumane treatment our families would endure.”

At Adelanto, she said, officials try to force her father to sign documents without due process or legal representation. The medical care was “less than minimal,” she said, the food was unsustainable and the water tasted like Clorox.

Lucero Garcia told The Times she was concerned about her 61-year-old uncle, Candido, who was detained June 9 as he worked at his job at Magnolia Car Wash in Fountain Valley.

But when she visited him Saturday, “he didn’t want to share much,” she said. “He’s worried more about us.”

This is not the first time the Adelanto detention center has faced scrutiny.

In 2018, federal inspectors issued a report finding “serious violations” at the facility, including overly restrictive detainee segregation and guards failing to stop detainees from hanging braided bed sheet “nooses.”

Five years later, current and former Adelanto detainees filed a class-action lawsuit against GEO Group, alleging the company “systematically poisoned” inmates by improperly using toxic chemicals to clean the detention center. GEO Group has denied the claims in the class-action suit.

In April, the California Department of Justice released a report that found all of the state’s six privately operated immigration detention facilities, including Adelanto, fell short in providing mental health care for detainees, medical record keeping, suicide prevention strategies, and use of force against detainees with mental health conditions.

But two staffers who spoke to The Times said they had never experienced such unsafe conditions at Adelanto.

As the prison population has increased over the last few months, they said, staff are working long hours without breaks, some even falling asleep driving home after their shifts and having car accidents. Shift duty officers with no security experience were being asked to make decisions in the middle of the night about whether to put detainees who felt threatened in protective custody. Officers, including people from food service, were being sent to the hospital to check on detainees with tuberculosis and hepatitis.

“Everyone’s just overwhelmed,” a staffer said.

Officers working over their allotted schedules were often tired when they were on duty, another staffer said.

In May, a detainee went into anaphylactic shock and ended up intubated in the hospital, the staffer said, because an officer wasn’t paying attention or was new and gave the detainee, who’s allergic to seafood, a tray that contained tuna.

At a May meeting, the warden told all executive staff that they needed to come to work dressed down on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the staffer said, because they would have to start doing janitorial work.

On June 2, a detainee at the Annex facility made his way from a medical holding area, through four locked doors, all the way back to his dorm unescorted, the staffer said — a major security breach.

“If he would’ve wanted to escape he would’ve been gone,” the staffer said. “All he did is push the buttons to access the doors and they were open for him, no questions. Apparently, whoever was in central control was too tired to check or too inexperienced.”

The detention center was becoming unsanitary, the staffer said, with trash bins not promptly emptied, bathrooms not cleaned and floors not mopped as they should be.

As new waves of detainees flooded into the facility over the last two weeks, the staffer said, the facility was chaotic and lacking basic supplies.

“We didn’t have enough to provide right away,” they said, “so we’re scrambling to get clothes and mattresses.”

Mark Ferretiz, who worked as a cook supervisor at Adelanto for 14 years until April, said former colleagues told him officers were working 16- to 20-hour shifts multiple days in a row without breaks, officers were slow to respond to physical fights between detainees, and food was limited for detainees.

“They had five years to prepare,” Ferretiz, who had served as a union steward, said of his former supervisors. “I don’t know the reason why they weren’t prepared.”

While the supply shortages appeared to ease some in recent days — a shipment of clothes and mattresses had arrived by Tuesday, when members of Congress toured — the detention center was still understaffed, the current staffer said.

Detainees were being served food on paper clam-shell to-go boxes, rather than regular trays, a staffer said, because the facility lacked employees to wash up at the end of mealtimes.

“Trash pickup’s not coming fast enough, ” a staffer said, noting that piles of trash sat outside, bagged up, beside the dumpsters.

In a statement last week, GEO Group Executive Chairman George C. Zoley said fully opening the Adelanto facility would allow his company to generate about $31 million in additional annualized revenues.

“We are proud of our approximately 350 employees at the Adelanto Center, whose dedication and professionalism have allowed GEO to establish a long-standing record of providing high-quality support services on behalf of ICE in the state of California,” Zoley said.

But after touring the facility, members of Congress said officials did not provide answers to basic questions.

When Chu asked officials about whether California immigrants were being taken to other states, she said, they said, “We don’t know.”