The new rule is specifically aimed at stopping a privately run facility from opening in Arleta, a plan being pursued by the Tucson-based firm VisionQuest.
“Making any money off of the misery and the pain of children is morally wrong on so many levels — and we cannot allow this in our city,” Council President Nury Martinez said at a recent news conference.
VisionQuest had hired a law firm to represent the company at City Hall and asked city officials about converting a Woodman Avenue building once used as an assisted living facility. The company said it had been awarded contracts from the federal government to operate facilities in Tucson, San Antonio and Southern California.
VisionQuest has balked at its facilities being called “detention centers,” but Martinez has repeatedly cited the potential center in Arleta as an example of a facility that the new rules would block. Immigrant advocates have pointed to past scandals involving VisionQuest, including staffers choking and slapping children at a north Philadelphia shelter, according to inspection reports obtained by the“These are jails for children — and let’s be very clear about that,” said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, calling VisionQuest “a for-profit private corporation with a history of abuse.
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