People in ICE custody face invasive strip searches after visits with loved ones

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After Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a woman from Venezuela following her immigration court hearing, her friends visited her at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego to help lift her spirits.

The woman, who is in her early 20s, didn’t know that she would have to strip completely naked in front of a facility guard afterward before returning to her housing unit. Capital & Main is not fully identifying her or other immigrants in this arti

“I cried so much because I don’t like people to see me naked, especially police,” the woman said in Spanish. “It’s one of the most humiliating things one can go through.”

It brought back bad memories. She fled Venezuela after police there persecuted her, in

She asked her friends not to come back.

Generally, ICE detention sta