Adelanto

A civil rights group in Los Angeles called today for the government to take immediate action to combat what it called a major outbreak of COVID-19 moving through the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

Gerry Hernandez had been hospitalized since March. Tony Shin reports July 22, 2020.

Adelanto Mayor Pro Tem Gerry Hernandez, who had been hospitalized since March after getting coronavirus and was once near-death, finally got to go home Wednesday. “I know you can’t tell but I’m smiling, guys,” he said. His wife Tracy couldn’t contain her excitement and her relief. “I’m so excited. Sorry, I’m trying not to get upset too, because it’s...

A Los Angeles legal aid organization is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other governmental agencies, seeking to compel the release of records regarding COVID-19 outbreaks at immigration detention centers and Border Patrol stations. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Los Angeles under the Freedom of Information Act by Al Otro Lado and the Edwin...

An Adelanto official got a false negative test before testing positive for COVID-19. Tony Shin reported on NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Monday, April 13, 2020.

Despite testing negative for COVID-19, doctors treated Adelanto Mayor Pro Tem Gerry Hernandez as if he had the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, and his wife says that action saved the city official’s life. “He lost his kidney function; he lost his lung function; he was starting to lose his function of his heart beating regularly,” said Tracy...

The immigration detention center in Adelanto will not close its doors after the company that manages it, and ICE, reached an agreement and signed a new contract.

Immigrants held in U.S. detention facilities filed a lawsuit Monday decrying what they called shoddy medical care and a failure by authorities to provide accommodations for disabilities.

Homeland Security’s watchdog agency says it has found rotting food, moldy and dilapidated bathrooms and practices that violated standards at immigration detention facilities. The Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog says rotting food, moldy and dilapidated bathrooms and agency practices at immigration detention facilities may violate detainees’ rights. The Office of Inspector General made unannounced visits to four facilities in California...

The family of a 27-year-old man who died after a stint at a California immigration detention facility says they want answers about what happened to him.

Frustrated by the situation at the southern border, President Trump is purging leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to make his immigration agenda easier to enact, while the leadership void in his administration continues to grow.

A Southern California desert community has backed out of a contract for the state’s largest immigration detention facility in a move that won’t necessarily close its doors but rather could open them to an expansion.

The administrative council of Adelanto decided to terminate the contract the detention center had under the GEO company.

A father arrested by ICE two years ago while taking his daughters to school talks about his experience in a detention center. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, 2019.

A surprise inspection at an immigrant detention center in the Southern California city of Adelanto found significant health and safety risks to detainees temporarily held there.

A tow truck driver latched onto the back of a Honda in an attempted reposession, but the woman behind the wheel — with kids in the backseat — managed to drive off. Tony Shin reports for the NBC4 News at 5 Friday, June 1, 2018.

Cellphone video shows a woman whose car was about to repossessed in Adelanto drive the car onto the sidewalk with small children in the back seat on Thursday, May 31, 2018. After trying to drive onto the sidewalk, the woman started backing out over a flower bed and she was finally able to get away. Sheriff’s deputies are now investigating...

A 9-year-old boy who survived a fall onto a highway after the bounce house he was in blew into the air said he was lucky to be alive Monday.

Authorities say a child suffered minor injuries after gusty winds blew a bounce house from a California neighborhood onto a nearby highway.

On a request to see what life is like for the hundreds of undocumented immigrants detained since President Donald Trump took office in January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreed to give NBC4 a tour of its Adelanto Detention Facility, the largest of its kind in California.