Mesa Now: News You Don't Get From Inside Mesa City Hall

Looks like there's no more media black-out about Immigration Detention Centers here in Mesa - the story has now been exploding for days about Southwest Key for-profit locations here in Mesa. They've been operating here for years under the radar screen housing hundreds of minors.
Little did we know about this big business until reports about unaccompanied minors in a Southwest Key facility in McAllen TX emerged a couple of weeks ago.  
Now it's all out there catching the world's attention after little local notice about these facilities here in Mesa. 

On top of allegations of police brutality, excessive use-of-force, unprovoked violence and incidents of officer-involved shootings by the Mesa Police Department in the last years two years, the conservative squeaky-clean image of Mesa is turning into a urban myth when the evidence shows up in real time investigative reporting from the outside.
Here's just a sample of some the news about Mesa in the last day:

Eight Immigrant Boys Sexually Abused by Youth Care Worker in ...

Infosurhoy-29 minutes ago

Eight Immigrant Boys Sexually Abused by Youth Care Worker in Arizona, Court ... August 2016 and July 2017 at a Southwest Key facility in Mesa, Arizona.

Arizona migrant children centres enveloped in abuse scandal

gulfnews.com-5 hours ago

Workers checked on the children in their rooms at the facility, Southwest Key's Casa Kokopelli in Mesa, Arizona, about every 15 minutes, the prosecutor told a ...

 

The Sun Chronicle

US immigration nightmare continues amid media blackout

World Socialist Web Site-9 hours ago

One HIV-positive federal contractor forced oral sex and attempted to penetrate a number of boys detained at a facility in Mesa, Arizona. The victims were all ...

Eight children sexually molested immigrant at shelter

NJ TODAY-10 hours ago

... of molesting at least eight unaccompanied immigrant boys over nearly a year at one of the company's shelters in Mesa, Arizona, federal court records show.

 

Arizona lawmakers demand investigation of Southwest Key following ...

12news.com KPNX-12 hours ago

MESA, Ariz. - 12 News reached out to Arizona lawmakers and asked them what they were doing to hold the federal contractor hired to house migrant children, ...

TIME

 

An Arizona Detention Center Employee Allegedly Molested 8 ...

Brinkwire (press release)-13 hours ago

According to ProPublica, the Arizona Department of Health Services has alleged Southwest Key allowed Pacheco to work at their Mesa facility for nearly four ...

Worker charged with sexually abusing boys at US migrant centre

SBS-13 hours ago

... sexually abused the boys while working as a youth care worker at a center known as Casa Kokopelli run by the company Southwest Key in Mesa, Arizona.

 

Immigration Worker Charged with Sexually Molesting Eight Migrant ...

Yahoo News-14 hours ago

Pacheco was employed as a youth care worker at Casa Kokopelli, a Southwest Key detention center in Mesa, Arizona, that was cited by the Arizona Department 

 

Employee at Arizona Shelter for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children ...

Slate Magazine-19 hours ago

Pacheco was employed as a youth-care worker at the Casa Kokopelli shelter in Mesa, Arizona, starting in May 2016. In 2017, the Casa Kokopelli facility ran ...

 

Immigration shelter worker charged with 11 counts of abuse

WDTV-19 hours ago

... is HIV positive -- was indicted for engaging in sexual acts with at least eight boys between August 2016 and July 2017 at Casa Kokopelli in Mesa, Arizona.

2 Workers at Arizona Migrant Children Centers Are Charged With ...

New York Times-20 hours ago

The authorities said that a worker at that center, as well as an employee at a facility in Mesa, Ariz., sexually abused immigrant children housed at the facilities.

Teenagers are victims of sexual abuse in immigrant detention centers

AL DIA News-20 hours ago

... allegedly harassed and abused eight immigrant children without guardians over a period of nearly one year in one of the company's facilities in Mesa, Arizona ...