Stunning images show where the US detains migrants crossing the southern border by Daniel Brown on May 28, 2018, 7:43 PM Advertisement
 Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau appeared on Sunday to criticize the Trump administration's new policy of prosecuting immigrants who cross the southern US border illegally — an action that would inevitably separate children from their families. Favreau tweeted a picture of immigrant children being held in what looked like a cage at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Arizona. “This is happening right now, and the only debate that matters is how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible,” Favreau wrote in the tweet. But he deleted the tweet after The Daily Caller found that the picture was from an AZCentral.com story from 2014. Favreau's tweet came after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in early May that the US would refer "100 percent of illegal Southwest Border crossings to the Department of Justice for prosecution," adding "If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law." The issue gained new momentum in recent days when it was reported that the US Health and Human Services Administration lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children who had been placed with American sponsors after they arrived in the US illegally. While Favreau may have bungled the tweet, there have been widespread allegations of mistreatment and poor conditions at immigration detention centers across the US for years, which have sparked riots, hunger strikes and more. Take a look inside: SEE ALSO: Trump says some dangerous unauthorized immigrants 'aren't people' but 'animals' who will be rapidly kicked out of the US The majority of the following photos were taken in May 2017 at the immigration center in the desert city of Adelanto, California, which is the largest immigration detention center in the state.  The detention center is about 85 miles away from Los Angeles, and can hold up to 1,940 people.
After getting arrested by Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents, people can languish in the Adelanto detention center, and other such centers around the US, for years as they await hearings. 
The Adelanto facility was last inspected in 2016 by ICE's ERO Custody Management Division, which found that the detention center met the "standard."  Source: Immigration Customs and Enforcement
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