Backing the Geo Group’s effort to overturn a California law banning for-profit immigration detention centers, an attorney for the Biden administration’s Department of Justice urged the Ninth Circuit to strike down what he called the state’s “extreme” statute.
President Joe Biden campaigned on a platform that included ending private immigration facilities. “No business should profit from the suffering of desperate people fleeing violence,” Biden declared in his immigration platform, starkly contrasting his position from his predecessor’s.
California Deputy Attorney General Gabrielle Boutin denied the Justice Department’s argument. “The law is an exercise of the state’s sovereign authority and does not violate the Supremacy Clause,” Boutin told the three-judge panel. “These facilities create threats to the health and welfare of these detainees,” she added.
Sarah Fabian, a Justice Department lawyer , was questioned by federal judges about the Trump administration not providing soap or toothbrushes for migrant children. Credit Credit... She has received death threats.
Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate, said she “needs to be fired and prevented from ever holding another government job.”. Her name is Sarah B. Fabian. She is a Justice Department lawyer who has been a somewhat anonymous foot soldier in the Trump administration’s legal battles over immigration.