Max Rivlin-Nadler
Speak City Heights ReporterMax Rivlin-Nadler is an investigative journalist whose reporting has appeared in outlets such as the New York Times, the New Republic, the Village Voice and Gothamist. His years-long investigation into New York City's arcane civil forfeiture laws led to a series of lawsuits and reforms which altered a practice that had been taking millions from poor communities for decades. He has reported extensively on immigration and criminal justice issues, including the treatment of asylum-seekers along the border, San Diego's District Attorney race, and the criminalization of homelessness in the midst of California's deepening affordability crisis. A native of Queens, New York, Max attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where he majored in creative writing.
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There are now six confirmed cases of COVID-19 among detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and five among employees. Immigrant advocates now fear a wider coronavirus outbreak in the facility is inevitable. -
The city of San Diego told hundreds of city employees they won't be getting paid starting Monday because their jobs aren't essential to the coronavirus pandemic response. The union representing these workers says the action would violate their contract. -
Immigrant advocates are alarmed at what they see as the beginning of a larger possible outbreak at a facility they believe has not taken enough precautions to protect its detainees and staff. -
Drivers were instructed to go through the food-distribution lanes with their trunks open, as volunteers filled their cars with emergency groceries. -
Advocates say the greatest risk of the spread of coronavirus doesn’t come from the detainees themselves, who have been kept isolated from the larger world for weeks and months, but from the guards and other employees at facilities.
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The program is postponed until at least late April after advocates argue that prolonging the program leaves an already vulnerable group at risk during a public health emergency.
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