Two former employees of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractor are alleging a toxic environment at the Sacramento ICE facility where the former employees say, some case specialists routinely abused and sexually harassed fellow employees and undocumented immigrants.
In sworn declarations filed to the California’s Civil Rights Department, Sandy Nogales and Jorge Zinzun are described as former employees of BI Incorporated, which develops electronic monitoring systems for ICE and other government agencies. Nogales said in her declaration that she worked for BI Incorporated for eight years and was in charge of the Sacramento office where some ICE contractors, “start out with good intentions, but over time, the absolute power granted them over (undocumented immigrants) makes some of them start to feel superior over the people they are monitoring.”
Nogales identified a BI Inc. employee named Luis Ruiz in her declaration as a “predator preying on the people he is supposed to be helping.” Zinzun declared under penalty of perjury that he was fired by BI Incorporated in December 2023 as retaliation after reporting Ruiz’s aggressive behavior to his superiors…