UC Berkeley student detained, sent to 'horrifying' ICE facility in Calif. desert (barf alert)

A 23-year-old student at UC Berkeley was detained by immigration enforcement agents at SFO and transferred to one of the most “inhumane” ICE facilities in the country, her lawyer told SFGATE on Tuesday. Paula Valentina Albornoz Hernandez, who came to the U.S. from Colombia and applied for asylum to escape gender-based violence, was traveling to Portland, Oregon, when ICE agents detained her without a warrant Friday night, Centro Legal de la Raza lawyer Nikolas De Bremaeker said. Though Hernandez overstayed her visa, she was already issued a work permit, and her asylum application was still pending, he continued. “It is...