In September 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using  Golden State Annex, a former state prison located in McFarland, California as an expansion of the Mesa Verde Detention Facility.

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Centro Legal de la Raza and the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice have analyzed the impact on communities and enforcement trends of this expansion from September, 2020 to the end of March, 2021.