kpbs Immigrant advocates said it’s the latest in a long line of controversial ICE tactics. Over the last few months, federal agents have dumped people who judges have ordered released from the Otay Mesa Detention Center onto the streets of San Ysidro late at night. Oftentimes they are left without charged phones, money, food, or any help getting home, according to human rights volunteers trying to help this vulnerable population. Perez, a Guatemalan national released from Otay Mesa Tuesday night, described the treatment he endured to KPBS. Despite that a federal judge had ordered their release, he said he and other detainees were handcuffed, loaded into a van and left at the San Ysidro Transit Center around 10 p.m. “They just stopped the bus and threw us out into the street,” Perez said in Spanish. He asked KPBS not to use his first name because of a pending deportation case. Perez did not have a working phone or any money. And while other detainees were able to call friends and relatives to pick them up, Perez doesn’t know anyone in San Diego. Even if he had a phone, he wouldn’t know who to ask for help. “I’m from Florida, so I don’t know anyone here,” he said. An ICE spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Perez said ICE agents arrested him in August while he was working as a landscaper in Miami. After spending more than three months in detention, a cold and tired Perez was stranded in San Ysidro on Tuesday. Then he was saved by a volunteer from Detention Resistance, a San Diego-based advocacy group. Read the rest of the story at the link in bio. 📝Gustavo Solis 📷 @alexnsandiego View all 15 comments