Redding’s ICE facility has been detaining immigrants for years. Since Trump’s inauguration, those detainments have spiked
Data from the federal government confirms that the facility, which does not appear on ICE’s public listings of facilities, has been detaining noncitizens at a rate of more than a dozen a month.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Redding has been detaining noncitizens for years, federal government data shows.
The data also indicates that the rate at which immigrants were being detained at the facility significantly increased after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, and only about half of those detained since then have had a criminal record.
Last summer, Shasta Scout broke the news that Redding has an ICE facility, something that local officials — including the police chief and former city manager — said they knew little to nothing about. At the time, Scout could not verify whether the facility, located at 443 Redcliff Drive, was actively detaining people or what the facility’s operations were. ICE officials did not respond to requests for comment on the specificities of the facility, but records requests confirmed the existence of holding cells.
There’s been ICE activity in Redding since at least 2012, according to documents obtained by Shasta Scout last summer. The first confirmation of ICE owning the Redcliff Drive building was documented the year after. It’s still unclear why no record of such a facility is listed on ICE websites, even now.
Federal data obtained by the Data Deportation Project late last year and reviewed by Shasta Scout shows there have been hundreds of detainments in the facility since 2019. More than half occurred during the first nine months of Trump’s second term.
That data uses the term “Redding Hold Room,” although the Redcliff Drive building isn’t listed publicly by ICE as a place to detain immigrants. Hold rooms are different from ICE’s detention centers in that they’re not subject to scrutiny by state officials and were only designed to hold people for a few hours. Immigration law experts have concerns about these facilities due to increasingly extended hold times and reports of inhumane conditions in some facilities.
ICE officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this story.
Where did the data come from?
The Deportation Data Project is a database containing U.S. immigration enforcement data gathered through records requests to ICE and other federal government agencies, meaning all of the data is sourced from the government itself. The database is compiled by researchers based at the University of California campuses in Berkeley and Los Angeles who are actively seeking ongoing updates to these datasets. The latest release of data — which contains records up to mid-October 2025 — was posted last December.
For the most accurate and consistent analysis, Shasta Scout primarily reviewed data from the latest batch release, which includes records dated from September 2023 to October 2025.
Detainments surge in Redding as ICE activity expands nationwide
News outlet ChicoSol has reported that multiple noncitizens from nearby counties have been taken to the Redding ICE facility over the last year or so, including a couple of individuals who were taken there after being detained at court.
Overall, since 2019 — the year when ICE detainments were first reported at the Redding facility — there have been about 280 times when a noncitizen has been held in the Redding Hold Room.
During former President Joe Biden’s term, the highest number of detainments in one year at the facility was 28, the number held in 2024. Most other years, the number of detainments under Biden was only in the single digits. But with Trump’s second term came a more aggressive immigration agenda, which is reflected in Redding detainment numbers.
Between Trump’s arrival in office on Jan. 21, 2025 and mid-October — the most recent date for which the Deportation Data Project has obtained data — there were about 150 detainments at the Redding facility, making up over half of the total number of detainments since ICE started reporting holds at the facility. The majority of those detained were listed to be of Hispanic origin, and the vast majority were identified as male.
Last summer, the rate at which immigrants were being detained in Redding started to rise, echoing national trends. By June, the average number of people getting detained per month was 12, but that number doubled in July, August and September.
Part of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda has been to target the “worst of the worst,” terminology used to describe noncitizens with violent criminal convictions. However, both national and regional reports show that arrests of noncitizens without any criminal record have also been increasing. At the Redding facility during the first year of Trump’s second term, about half of those detained had no indication of a criminal record. Comparatively, in 2024 under Biden, only 20% of detainees at the Redding Hold Room had no criminal record.
The ICE data also includes other demographic information related to those detained, such as the noncitizen’s birth year. Of those detained in the last two years, the oldest person was born in 1956, and the youngest in 2006. Both were detained under Trump. The majority of those detained in Redding under both Biden and Trump were in their 30s and 40s.
The data also lists the country of citizenship of the person detained. In the last two years, the majority — about 83% — of immigrants held in the Redding facility were citizens of Mexico, followed by about 5% from China and 2% from Guatemala. Other countries of citizenship include El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Laos, Tonga, Turkiye, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Venezuela.
ICE data does not document the detainment of any U.S. citizens at the facility since it started reporting detainments in 2019.
What is a hold room?
Last October, The Guardian published an investigation about ICE facilities like the one in Redding, which it referred to as “secretive” hold rooms. There are at least 170 nationwide, according to data from the Deportation Data Project — including the one in Redding. The investigation found that some individuals held in the rooms were there for days or weeks at a time, the conditions inside the rooms were sometimes poor, lawmakers have been denied entry into such rooms for oversight inspections, and they’re not subject to traditional audits that larger ICE facilities are required to go through.
Hold rooms in detention facilities were originally meant to be places where people are held for a short period of time while they await further processing, according to an ICE policy document outlining standards for detention. They’re often small, concrete rooms located in ICE offices and federal buildings, and they don’t contain beds. After a stay in a hold room, individuals are usually released or transferred to a different ICE facility, which could be to another hold room or a detention center that is meant for longer-term stays.
ICE data shows individuals were most often transferred from Redding to other hold rooms in Sacramento, Bakersfield, Santa Ana and San Pedro, as well as to ICE detention facilities, such as the Golden State Annex in McFarland and the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield.
Before last summer, it was against ICE’s standards to detain someone in a hold room for more than 12 hours. But after it was revealed that ICE had begun detaining immigrants in hold rooms for much longer than the maximum allowed time in some states — likely because of the major influx of immigrants being arrested and detained under Trump — ICE sent a memo to field offices toward the end of June 2025 extending the limit to 72 hours.
After Trump was inaugurated, the average length of stay in the Redding Hold Room was about 9 hours, but there were 42 separate instances where an individual was held over 12 hours. The longest someone was held was during September 2025, for more than 82 hours or about three and a half days.
Immigration attorneys express concern over ICE’s hold rooms
Nisha Kashyap, an attorney and director of the Racial Justice program at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, told Shasta Scout it’s very concerning that people are being held for days on end in rooms that were only meant to hold people for a few hours.
“It’s common sense and to be totally expected that if you’re holding people overnight and for multiple days there,” Kashyap said, “there are basic human needs that you’re going to need to meet, and if ICE is unable to meet those needs, as we’ve seen, it results in these inhumane and unconstitutional conditions.”
Immigrants who are detained in the U.S. have constitutional rights, including the right to not be punished by the conditions they are kept in while detained, the right to due process and the right to legal representation if requested, Kashyap said.
While the conditions inside the Redding Hold Room are still unknown, Kashyap said it’s still a concern that people are being held for more than 12 hours at a time. She said ICE’s standards for hold rooms are lower than they are for longer-term detention facilities, and there’s little oversight of the rooms because ICE often denies lawmakers and attorneys access to the rooms, causing a lack of transparency about what’s going on inside.
Kashyap has represented multiple noncitizens who were detained in hold rooms in San Francisco in a lawsuit alleging such rooms had unconstitutional and inhumane conditions. She said those detained there were often held overnight without anywhere to sleep, they were denied access to basic hygiene supplies and medical screening and care, the lights were usually on 24/7, the room itself was cold, and there was only one toilet to be used by all being held in the room.
The entire lawsuit is ongoing, as it also challenges the 72-hour hold room policy and ICE’s policies that permit arrests at immigration courts. But the argument challenging the conditions of the San Francisco hold rooms won, and the judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering ICE to comply with the Constitution by improving conditions at the facility. The attorneys in the lawsuit also filed motions asking the court to vacate ICE’s 12-hour waiver policy and the courthouse arrest policy nationwide.
Kashyap said she thinks violations of constitutional rights are likely happening in ICE’s hold rooms across the country. Another lawsuit has been filed in Baltimore, alleging inhumane conditions in hold rooms, including the denial of access to food, blankets, mattresses, showers and medical care.
Amelia Dagen, an attorney with the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights and the lead attorney on that case, told Shasta Scout that she began hearing instances of people being held in poor conditions in these hold rooms for days on end since very early last year. She said the conditions she’s litigating in Baltimore are very common in other jurisdictions from what she’s heard of cases across the country related to ICE’s hold rooms.
“I think these conditions are being maintained by ICE nationally because it’s a matter of national arrest quotas and national enforcement priorities that are so high,” Dagen said. “Because there’s this ramp up in enforcement activity, there necessarily has to be an increase in detention.”
The office of California Senator Adam Schiff, who recently conducted oversight at an ICE detention center in California City with Senator Alex Padilla, said in an email statement that it is aware of the Redding ICE facility and is concerned about the facility’s conditions and those who are held in it. The office stated that it’s been working with local, state and federal leaders to express concerns about the conditions and mistreatment at these detention centers in California but did not provide further details about the Redding facility.
This story is part of “Aquí Estamos/Here We Stand,” a collaborative reporting project of American Community Media and community news outlets statewide.
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Someone in the comments basically said we can’t allow “unfettered civil rights”.
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In other words, we need to control which civil rights some people have, and limit their civil rights.
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This is actually from a resident of Shasta county, and an American citizen, who lives in America the home of the brave, and the land of the free.
Imagine if our country had accepted that during the revolutionary war.
The Redcoats: “Those commoners need to be controlled. We can’t allow them to speak out of line, bear arms or weapons, and allow them to report in their newspapers the atrocities that we have done. We’ll find out who they are by having searches of their homes done without any type of legal warrant. We’ll teach these people their place.”
“After all, we can’t allow the commoners to have unfettered civil rights. It would lead to disaster.”
If you give up civil rights and freedoms of other people, then you will soon lose your own civil rights and freedom.
Now’s the time for all free and good men to stand up to tyranny. If you do not allow others to have freedom, do not expect that you also will have freedom.
Demand unfettered civil rights. Be a free man with independent thought.
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We have no kings. And we will accept no kings.
Signed….”the Free men”.
It was me. Guilty as charged. I hope this doesnt sound preachy: Civil rights are subjective and never permanent. Trending: with a rapidly rising population the next philosophical development will determine who is allowed to live. The rights of the homeless to simply exist (criminlizing sitting and lying on sidewalks, street parking motor homes, no camping on public land) is a current municipal and supreme court issue and it intersects with illegal immigration. What to do with people when there become so many that they affect the general public?Debating when that moment has arrived or is nearly arrived creates our bbq conversations party affiliations. The right to smoke medicinal marijuana vs my right not to inhale your second hand smoke. You are allowed to sleep in your urine in front of my store and smell bad untill my customers stop coming and i go bankrupt or catch a disease. This social experiement plays out everyday. Women could not gain a mortgage independently until 1974. Incredible. To think that illegal immigration laws might change in our lifetime is not a big leap in imagination. Civil liberty philosophical developments have cleared out the psych wards. Now many of those people are homeless and living out a furtherance of social enlightenment. So when I say some people wont be allowed basic civil liberties, it isn’t a threat, it’s a promise.
Since at least 1970, the United States Boarder patrol has visited the (old) Shasta County Jail to take into custody illegal aliens that the sheriff’s office held from arrests by the sheriff’s office and various other local law enforcement agencies. To the best of my memory, local peace officers did not search for illegal aliens but found them only while investigating traffic infractions and misdemeanor crimes–with some felony inquiries. However, local law enforcement did not treat those people–virtually if not literally, all Hispanic–like they were trout and the officers were sports fishermen. In other words, local peace officers did not release those that had not committed any state or local crimes and/or those that had only committed minor traffic infractions: Those local officers arrested both the good people and the bad people whose status was that of illegal alien. (Sometimes, the Boarder Patrol would notify the jail staff that the Boarder Patrol could not come to Redding to take charge of those illegal aliens held in the jail.: The Boarder Patrol’s budget near the end of fiscal years did not always allow the costs of coming to Redding.) All accused of any degree of criminal conduct still answer locally for that criminal conduct.
Robert: Laws today seriously restrict CA LE cooperation with federal agents. https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-local-law-enforcement-and-immigration-under-california-0/
The California Government Code makes clear that the fifty-eight county sheriffs and the fifty-eight county district attorneys work under the directions of the Office of Attorney General. However, because each sheriff and each district attorney is elected of, by, and for the people of his or her county and California Penal Code section 781 not withstanding in fact, any indictment for nonfeasance, misfeasance, and/or malfeasance must be had and tried in the county of the sheriff or district attorney so accused unless the AG can convince a local Superior Court judge that the prosecution cannot get a fair trial therein–fat chance of that.
Effectively, both sheriffs and district attorneys work only under their own directions. There has never been a California sheriff tried for nonfeasance, misfeasance, and/or malfeasance in any county other than the one in which he or she has been elected. I strongly suspect that most of, if not all of, those detainees in ICE holding cells were received from the sheriff of Shasta County by and through the jail he staffs with or without this or that. (Sometimes the law is more for fooling than for protecting: We all live in the “State” of deceptions.)
Times change.
It’s awesome that we have an ICE facility here. Every single illegal alien must go. If you want to come here, do it legally. Illegal immigrants have broken the law by breaking into our country, and many are mooching off Americans. They have greatly increased costs for Americans and caused much more harm than good.
BR says: “…and many are mooching off Americans. They have greatly increased costs for Americans….”
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You’re wrong on both accounts. They come here to work, which is why there is always net migration back to Mexico during economic recessions. If you want to talk about mooching in America, it’s red states that are revenue parasites on blue states, and red counties that are revenue parasites on blue counties here in California.
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Or, you can look at White Man’s Welfare—disability mooching. The average is 10.1 % of California’s population. The blue coastal counties range between 1.7-7.3%. Shasta County is 15.3%, and the counties surrounding us are even higher.
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As for undocumented workers making everything more expensive? That’s not how cheaper labor works, professor. Quite the opposite.
No state of the United States is a revenue parasite of another state. Get a clue- We are Americans, and we pay Federal taxes. The Government of State of California does not write a check to the Federal Government, American citizens do. I am a citizen of the United States of America first and a Californian second. When I write a check to IRS, I am doing it, not the State of California. Second, the point on illegal immigrants is not correct. In past decades, we used aliens, not “immigrants” to help us with low skilled labor, mainly in agriculture. Most of those jobs have been automated and eliminated. The recent opening of our border by the Obama and Biden Administrations was nothing more than a political power grab. Obama said, “We are going to fundamentally change America…” Approximately 65% of illegal aliens (from all countries) allowed into the country were military aged males- They did not come here to help America, they came here to sell illegal drugs that killed our children, they committed rape, murder, stole from retail stores, formed gangs, took advantage of welfare and made our streets less safe. Your comment, “Or, you can look at White Man’s Welfare…” is by definition, racist. America has historically allowed legal immigration by people with skills and or education that benefit the nation, not the immigrant. Illegal immigration has definitely not benefitted the United States of America.
Last point, Bruce (“professor”) is quite correct on illegal immigrants making everything more expensive. Under President Biden, the Bureau of Labor Statistics kept records on the contributions of illegal aliens to the economy, including taxes paid and other economic contributions, less costs to the economy. Their research showed that the average illegal alien costs the American economy $68,000 over the period of their lifetime. Feel free to research it, it is public information. News flash: If illegals were benefitting the American economy, our border would still be wide open.
Bruce, I shared your point of view for years. Both sides of my family include many Texan Republicans. But I am ashamed of the gas & oil rich families among us because they hire illegal immigrants for low cash wages for jobs that working class American tax payers need. I’ve had screaming fights with them. I’ve broken off contact with them. Now I refer to this rich class of MAGA’s and Democrats also as “Country Club Christians”. I don’t narc on family (do you think I’m wrong not to?) I don’t hate on individuals, but I sure think they are corrupt. And they dishonor our farmer Grandparents names. Thanks for listening. Any advice you have is welcome.
On the contrary, most of them have reduced the cost for Americans. Who do you think picks most of the produce that you buy in stores? And guess what, they do it with relatively lower wages.
If we didn’t have people working the fields at relatively lower wages, I guarantee you that you would be paying a whole lot more for the food that you eat.
But that’s just one small example Bruce. I can provide lots more.
Do you have any facts to support your bogus claim that our cost of living is increased because of them? Please do provide.
You think all immigrants are Latin field workers? Lol. I wish.
Please show me where in my comment that I said they were all Latin.
Lol.
Reading is hard, init?
Gary, In past decades, we did use legal aliens with H-2A visa’s or similar, to help us with low skilled labor, mainly in agriculture. Most of those jobs have been automated and eliminated, to include picking fruit. Automation is even cheaper than immigrant labor. Recent opening of our southern border by the Obama and Biden Administrations was nothing more than a political power grab. Bruce is quite correct on illegal immigrants making everything more expensive. Under President Biden, the Bureau of Labor Statistics kept records on the contributions of illegal aliens to the economy, including taxes paid and other economic contributions, less costs to the economy. Their research shows that the average illegal alien costs the American economy $68,000 over the period of their lifetime. Feel free to research it, it is public information. Your statement is not correct (I will not call it “bogus”), it is a debunked talking point. In addition, my family (step brother in law) owned a fruit processing company and my father in law was a dairy farmer. The “cheap labor” argument is no longer legitimate, our current economy demand specific skills and or education from immigrants to benefit growth.
“Debunked” my fanny.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/uline-maga-billionaires-mexican-labor
In Shasta County, we do live in extreme far right environment, ICE and Trump are celebrated. But we are not the norm for the United States of America. This poll helps see beyond the bubble: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/nx-s1-5699413/poll-trump-ice-immigration-economy-approval and the US Supreme Court just charged our political environment,. Hopefully we will be joining the rest of America soon.
Well reasoned reply of yours. I agree Few people realize that the American Agriculture giants, meat and poultry producers finance the transportation and illegal migration of cheap human labor to work in horrific conditions in factory farms. I wish OSHA would find & prosecute these Uber wealthy Country Club Criminal !
Thank you for this very informative and well written article. It is so important to each of us to be informed of such things.
No one is illegal on stolen land.
Ridiculous comment by woke entertainer, Billie Eilish, who lives in a multimillion-dollar complex and does not understand history.
Hey Bruce, I understand history better than most.
Are you trying to suggest that a lot of land was not taken from the native Americans?
News flash: a lot of land WAS taken from native Americans, often with little or no compensation given to them. Many native Americans were forced off of their land onto reservations. Guess who ended up with the land they were forced off of?
These are not just my opinion, these are the actual facts of history.
Maybe you need to have a refresher history course.
News flash: native americans were taking land from other native americans for thousands of years.
Newsflash: two wrongs don’t make a right.
Is that really the best you got? “But they were doing it!”
And by the way, you do realize that there were a lot of different native Americans? Different beliefs, different cultures. Some warlike, some pacifists. Not all of them tried to steal land from one another.
But okay, go ahead and paint them as all the same. Incredibly lame.
But they are legal or illegal on conquered land. History teaches us this lesson: That which you cannot defend may be lost. America was not stolen, it was conquered.
If you’ve entered the country illegally you’ve violated our laws and commited a crime. Apologists can play games with terminology but not my national security. Proactive leadership is often thankless however it will only take one terrorist attack to immediately make it clear that illegal immigration and open border policy needed to be addressed. Keep up the good work ICE, law enforcement officers, and President Trump. You promised this when you ran for office and an overwhelming majority of real Americans voted for you. Hopefully JD will be able to continue the work for another 8 years.
Ok, NC, we have laws in place to deal with exactly the situation you describe.
That isn’t what’s being done though.
The administration is violating immigration law more than the people they’re snatching off the streets and whose human rights are being violated.
How do I know? Because an inordinate number of those folks turn out to be here legally or are actually US citizens.
Legally how can a government that violates it’s own laws be justified? If an illegal immigrant must be locked up, why shouldn’t the Violator-in-Chief and all those who’ve cooperated with him? After all, the law must apply equally to everyone, right?
My favorite part (aside from the masked big-government agents murdering American citizens execution style in the streets), is ICE dragging pregnant women from their cars, denying sick children in their custody medicine, tear-gassing infants, arresting two-tours of duty Iraq combat veterans becasue “they couldn’t produce their papers,” and no-knock, no-warrant home-invasions of American citizen’s houses. But really, my favorite part is that Trump has been such a failure on all fronts of his presidency, that he has debased and reduced his supporters into actually defending all of that stuff. I so love that for you.
Consider the people entering the US illegally, knowing they can secure steady employment at a slaughterhouse. You call them criminal. What about the CEO who knows that many of his workers are illegal. His willingness and ability to offer jobs to illegals is a big reason why people cross the border. When will the CEO be slammed to the concrete and sent to prison?
NC, Yes, Trump did win.
Yes, Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan has stated that Donald Trump “raped” writer E. Jean Carroll.
Yes, he bragged publicly about “grabbing them (females) by the (vigina).
Yes, he is a convicted 34-count felon.
Yes, he said, “He’s a horrible dictator-type person,’ I’m a dictator….But sometimes you need a dictator.”
Yes, he said it’s okay to call him a fascist, “I don’t mind.”
Yes, in today’s Quinnipiac University Poll, 37% approve of his job performance, and 56% disapprove.
Yes, a Quinnipiac poll found that 51% of American voters believe Trump is racist, 45% say he is not.
Yes, a Quinnipiac poll released on Wednesday found that 63% of voters disapprove of how ICE enforces immigration laws, while 34% approve.
Yes, he did pardon individuals convicted of violent felonies, such as assaulting police officers with weapons.
But…. did Trump win “overwhelmingly”?
No. Trump won it with 49.8 percent, but that wasn’t a majority. Harris received 48.3 percent, and 1.9 percent voted for third-party candidates; more Americans voted against Trump than for him.
But…. Yes, the midterms look very promising for the people Trump and his administration/staff call “terrorists” and “insurrectionists.”
Agreed!!!!
It takes these mental midgets to support not honoring the Law! Illegal aliens have no rights in the US! The Constitution is very clear about this! The only reason to want them here illegally is for their vote!
Not to mention you have to be pretty disingenuous to not acknowledge that past presidents have deported many many millions more. This is simply hypocrisy and hyperbole from the left.
Jon says: “Illegal aliens have no rights in the US! The Constitution is very clear about this!”
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Bzzzzt! Wrong. The Bill of Rights does not reserve basic human right for U.S. citizens only, nor does the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Yelling with exclamation points does not make it so.
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Yes, past presidents *have* deported millions, which has been widely acknowledged by the left. Our issues with ICE have to do with the violent authoritarian methods (not used by previous administrations with even more deportations), and with punitive selective enforcement focusing on blue states and cities.
I assume you had no problem allowing illegal aliens to cross the border into “red” states under Biden. You fail to give illegal aliens credit- they are actually pretty smart. They do not stay in red states very long, there are not enough freebies to make red states attractive to them, so they move to blue states and live off of their largess. Over 60% of illegals reside in blue states (Reported by Scripps News). That is why ICE is focusing their anti-illegal immigration efforts on blue states, that’s where the illegals are.
Every time some power rich politician plays the blame game, I tell myself this “Follow the Money” because that leads me to the facts about who is profiting from this conflict. Factory farms in the United States are notorious employers of desperately poor working families. These so-called good capitalists are just the opposite. They don’t give a damn about our country or the lives of the working poor American citizens or the working poor they buy from coyotes preying upon their own. Seriously evil traffickers run amuck down our freeways.
One who is a believer wonders, .. If Jesus Christ walked the streets of Redding without immigration papers would ICE arrest him also? Would Jesus Christ separate a little 5 year from his father and deport him? Murder innocent women and children including a salt of the earth nurse with a bullet to the back of the head execution style? On a recent radio show Sheriff Johnson said when illegals are discovered Redding ICE is immediately contacted and they are deported. Of course Johnson shot a woman in the back of the head when she called 911 in a mental health crisis. Johnson wanted to also outfit Eureka Police with Nunchucks. To Shasta County Sheriff Johnson , Christian nationalism is no Christianity at all, as they like to pick and choose which scriptures they want to follow, such as this…
The Son of Man Will Judge the Nations
31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the [c]holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
41 “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
44 “Then they also will answer [d]Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ 45 Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Oh by the Way… Trump is going to take your guns away…
TL/DR
Just kidding. I read it to the penultimate and last sentences:
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“And these (the unhelpful) will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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Infinite punishment for finite crimes. The most horrifically immoral concept in any of the world’s prominent religions.
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“Oh by the Way… Trump is going to take your guns away…”
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Good. The 2nd Amendment was envisioned by the Founders to be a hedge against tyrannical authoritarianism. Unfortunately, most of the gun-humpers support the current tyrannical authoritarian.
And yet you missed the most important sentence..
‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
You say…
“Infinite punishment for finite crimes. The most horrifically immoral concept in any of the world’s prominent religions.”
Its not religion, its a reality…You should not worry about this scripture, notice it is about believers, and those who thought they where.
Jesus says…
‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
Interesting the King of the Universe wants people to feed the sick and cloth the naked, visit the sick or visit folks that are in prison.
Your stuck on the punishment part… I see why
This is a nice site to make scriptural comments, its not Atheistic, or Christian bashing, its not A NEWSCAFE.
Perhaps you would be much happier.
By the Way, how do you feel about the Holy Spirit?
Chris says: “And yet you missed the most important sentence… ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’”
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Yes, there are some reasonably positive messages in the Gospels. Here’s the flaw, though: “…you did it to Me.” Me, me, me, me, me. It’s all about me.
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I’ll take The Golden Rule—the ethical principle of treating others as you would like to be treated. Simple tit-for-tat game theory. Universal because sequential cooperation works to the benefit of everyone involved.
LOL yup its all about Jesus 🙂
Thank you god that this is not ANewsCafe. I do not need another recipe.
Definitely a TLDR. Im always going to check out when someone quotes bible verse. Supernatural comic book for low IQ people.
Yep, Atheist….. I coined a term for people like you “Evangelical Militant Atheist.
Flys….. Where is your lord?
First, you assume multitudes. Just because someone rejects your Iron-Age Middle Eastern religion doesn’t mean they’re irreligious. Maybe NC is a Buddhist, a Sikh, or an animist—you don’t know. Of course, to you “atheist” probably means “not a member of my evangelical Christian sect.”
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As for “Evangelical Militant Atheist,” you’re basing that label on a line and a half of text? Your self-righteous presuppositions are staggering.
Im a recovering catholic that did not vote for Trump believe it or not.
I agree that people who are in the US illegally have typically broken an immigration law and that laws should be enforced within our constitutional guidelines of human dignity and due process. However, using the term, “criminal” for every person here illegally is like labeling every person who exceeds the speed limit a criminal. We have broken the law but I can’t conceive of that as deserving a “criminal” label, or an intense effort to apprehend speeding “criminals” using the type of actions we witness in use by ICE officers. Immigration reform is a difficult issue for which our ineffectual congress needs to grow up and deal with properly.
I’m sure you’re aware of this, but the entire MAGA sandcastle is built on a foundation of fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of “the other,” fear of change, fear of losing unearned status, et cetera., ad infinitum. Gnawing, constant fear is the glue that holds MAGA together.
Undocumented farm, kitchen, and hotel workers aren’t scary, so calling them all violent criminals is effective playing of the fear card, even though they commit fewer violent crimes per capita than do citizens. But the fear card only works on those who are predisposed to being fearful.
Typically, our society misuses the word criminal. Only uncommonly does the commission of one crime make anyone a criminal. A person who violates the driving-under-the-influence laws one time is not a criminal even though he or she has committed a life-threatening crime.
People who entered the U.S. illegally by sneaking into the country are not criminals by and from that type of illegal entry; however, if they have a significant criminal record in another country, they can be referred to as criminals. Arguably, if the alien committed perjury to get into this country, he or she can be referred to as a criminal.
The Supreme Court of the United States has determined that illegal aliens–by whatever name known–are not entitled to the same degree of due process as to deportation as he or she would be entitled to if charge with a general-law criminal statute. If the due process for general-law criminal-statue violations was applied to deportation actions, it would take thirty to forty years to remove all of the illegal aliens from our country if none came into our country during that thirty-year-to-forty-year period and at a cost that is beyond my ability to calculate in the hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars.
One sacrifices a significant amount–far from all–of his or her dignity when one violates the holiest of sectarian scriptures in the history of humanity–the Constitution of the United States of America.
Thank you for this reporting. It is important that we know what is happening in our community. I witnessed a detainment at our courthouse in October of this year. It was heartwrenching to see this family’s life upended. And, without due process, how can we know that it was warranted?
Fine to deport immigrants who are not legally here. Not fine to have secret sites that no one can access and no oversight given. Do better USA. I’m not outraged that Trump is deporting people who are here illegally, criminal or not. I’m bothered by HOW they are doing it. Does Shasta Scout have plans to interview and tour the unlisted facility?
Why would the Federal Gov offer a tour? And here is the room you get to sit in with your free food and bed while you possibly wait more than 8 hours to catch a mini-van to Sacramento. And over here is where we write you a check for $1000 before we ask you where youd like to be dropped off in Mexico. It’s not exactly a gulag or guantanamo or pelican bay.
I am glad Redding Ice is doing their part to remove criminals from our country. Is there any way I can help support their efforts?
Absolutely. You can show your support by placing a stool in front of the ICE facility, sitting on your thumb, and rotating. That strikes me as a proper celebration of the elimination of due process and the crippling of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th and 14th amendments by the Trump Administration.
Great question. Continue to support our president and law enforcement, especially ICE by thanking them whenever possible and telling everyone you know (youre in the majority) that you dont want our country and especially our social services and school system to be overwhelmed with illegal immigrants.
NC, do you work for ice or law enforcement?
Because your comments sure make it seem like you do.
I do not work in law enforcement. I strongly support ICE. I strongly support national border security. I strongly support deportation of illegal aliens.
Only a lunatic would still support ICE after the last month. They are not immigration enforcement. They are Trumps thugs who were ordered in to harass protesters and in the process took out two Americans. Now, Trump has written plans to send them to polling stations during the midterms(not for any immigration enforcement) but to check IDs at the door. This is straight out of 1930s Germany. ICE needs to go. Plenty of other agencies can fulfill immigration enforcement.
Agreed!
Madison and Shasta Scout, thank you for your investigative reporting. Sadly, our local MAGAs will be pleased; ICE is in Redding. The rest of us should be concerned!
MAGA’s lawless figure, a court-adjudicated rapist and convicted 34-count felon, listed over 4,500 times in the Epstein Files so far, promised to focus only on deporting undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records. But, of course, as a self-described dictator, “it’s okay to call me a fascist,” he has lied once again. The majority of those detained and deported often have no criminal convictions or only minor infractions like traffic or immigration violations. We see clearly what the MAGA Trumpian white nationalists are planning: the reestablishment of a neo-fascist confederacy across all America.
Trump’s administrative team, including Stephin Miller, K. Nome, P. Bondia, and V. P. Vance (who called Trump the American Hitler), claim that ICE, like Hitler’s Gestapo and the Slave Patrols, “have federal immunity,” making them immune to prosecution. Polling data shows that a significant portion of Americans believe Trump holds positive views about Adolf Hitler, with 54% of Americans thinking he believes Hitler was a good person who did some good things, according to a November 2024 YouGov poll.
As Trump is trying to do now, Hitler and the Nazi regime systematically violated and then rewrote the laws of Germany between 1933 and 1945, transforming a democratic republic into a totalitarian dictatorship through “legal” means. The fascist Southern Confederate States of America controlled all elections, and the US Constitution was disregarded. And Trump, who has just called for his control of all America’s elections, has just seized all the election data from Georgia, and he also said that if Minnesota doesn’t give him all the election information, ICE will crack down harder. Look for ICE at the polling place this November.
Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump’s agenda has faced over 600 lawsuits within a single year. In most cases, district court judges ruled that his policies were unlawful. Minnesota alone found that Trump’s ICE forces violated at least 96 court orders in just one month, and federal courts have recently ordered the release of hundreds of individuals detained for numerous violations of the US Constitution. Here in Shasta County, ROV Clint Curtis, a local MAGA devotee, openly boasted in Shasta Scout that he provided Trump’s DOJ with our election information to prosecute his political rivals.
It’s called neo-fascism, folks. Be concerned.
Ok if they want to deport people who should be deported, but NOT okay to operate in secret. They’ve demonstrated they lie and violate the law consistently. With no oversight they could be torturing people or even killing or disappearing them. We don’t do secret black site prisons here, because we can’t trust what officials will do if they know nobody is looking. Like Reagan said, trust but verify. I can’t think of any federal Dept Head who doesn’t violate both their oaths of office and the constitution every 5 minutes, so oversight is a must. (Personally I think violating your oath of office should be a felony. In my eyes that’s the biggest crime of all.)
What about those seeking asylum? Are they entitled to due process? Or is everyone guilty of being criminals with no opportunity to prove anything otherwise?
BG, the asylum grift is over for a few years thankfully.
Yes, immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. are entitled to due process, as the Fifth Amendment protects all “persons” within U.S. territory, regardless of citizenship or legal status. This includes the right to a fair hearing in immigration court, the opportunity to present evidence, and the right to counsel. Trump has violated this numerous times.
Key aspects of due process for asylum seekers include Constitutional Protection: the Supreme Court has held that due process applies to all individuals in the U.S., including those present unlawfully or temporarily.
Exactly. These Trump defenders don’t seem to understand most of these people didn’t sneak across tv border. They were scared for their lives in their home country so they came here for a chance to speak to a judge and plead their case to make a new life here, where they could be safe. The money that’s going to ICE would be better spent in more immigration courts so people could be processed in weeks instead of years. That alone would solve our border crisis. In the meantime, they’re not “illegals”.
As usual, Shasta Scout demonstrates biased and weak journalism with half-truths and innuendo. Trump has never said he would ONLY go after “the worst of the worst.” Every illegal immigrant is already a criminal by having entered the US in violation of law(s). Trump ALSO said, “On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in American history,” Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania the day before the election. “We’re going to get them out. We have to. Dwight Eisenhower has the record. … But we’re going to unfortunately beat the record.”
Rich, be real. Shasta Scout does a much better job than most media outlets (left and right leaning) in terms of impartial reporting. The article was basically a big stat dump. However, the community should know if there’s a detention/holding facility in town and I am glad to know we have one. I hope the president continues to use it and prioritize deportation. I agree with your sentiment that illegal aliens have already committed a crime.
WRONG! Being undocumented is not a crime. It is a civil offense for which an individual may be removed.
Being an illegal immigrant is against the law. That makes you a criminal. Nice try.
Wrong. Being an undocumented immigrant is considered a civil infraction (like a parking ticket), not a criminal offense. Even the Trump administration says so. People charged with criminal offenses are guaranteed legal counsel, jury trials (unless waived), and other constitutional protections. That undocumented immigrants are not charged with crimes is why the Trump administration argues they are not entitled to due process.
By your logic someone who gets a speeding or parking ticket is a criminal.
Imagine if we started locking up people for speeding tickets or parking tickets.
This is from the Cato Institute, a rather right-wing org. “President Donald Trump premised his mass deportation agenda on the idea that he would be ‘returning millions and millions of criminal aliens.’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has repeatedly claimed that the agency is arresting the worst of the worst. New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leaked to the Cato Institute reveal a different story. Only 5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% No Convictions. Also, research consistently shows that immigrants—both legal and undocumented—are less likely to commit crimes or be incarcerated than native-born U.S. citizens, additionally mentioned by the Cato Institute and many other studies.
I’ve seen comments here and elsewhere from people stating that anyone here illegally is a criminal. Independent of the laws regarding due process for everyone—it’s important to note that many of these people are here legally, but not yet permanent citizens. Under previous administration, including Trump’s there are multiple way non-citizens legally reside in the U.S.. Indeed as this article noted, they are often arrested while attempting to follow the laws set in place by various legal statuses they reside under. These comments also conveniently bypass the reality that Trump has pardoned multiple convicted criminals—-some of the worst of the worst even.
Trump wants to make forced concentration camps for homeless as well, your point?
Are you Galardo?
Eventually the social experiment of unfettered civil rights will intersect unavoidably with public health and we’ll be forced to deal with the drug addicts and homeless bums. It’s a very thin line between organized society and hysteria–as witnessed with the pointless masking and work lock downs during covid. One more outbreak in the San Diego homeless encampments and you’ll have a hard time defending mass quarantines that look exactly like a prison hospital.
NC: “Unfettered civil rights”
Oh yes, because we have to keep some people in check and not let them have all their civil rights.
That about sum it up for you?
Yes. Thank you.