by Officers at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles — a lockup run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons — had been asked to prepare for an influx of up to 120 new bookings from expected immigration raids this weekend, according to two sources familiar with the situation. Typically, the downtown facility is staffed to receive new inmates only on weekdays, the officials said, and handling weekend intakes required ordering staff to come in on their days off.
The staff came in as directed, but by midafternoon immigration officials had dropped off fewer than a dozen people for processing, according to one of the sources.
“We are hearing they aren’t getting the numbers they want,” the source said, adding that the numbers could rise if officials started bringing in detainees from San Bernardino County later in the evening. Both sources requested anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
