Staff began using HDQ Neutral "to a startling degree" in February 2020, according to the lawsuit. The "chemical spraying was a near-constant and invasive presence at Adelanto.

The EPA's investigation found that staff and detainees were instructed to apply HDQ Neutral, a pesticide, inside the facility as often as every 30 minutes, without proper ventilation and at a ...

In the petition published on Change.org, the creator of the page calls for the public to demand an end to the use of HDQ Neutral. "Their eyes are burning for god's sake!" the author writes.

Immigrants are being doused in toxic industrial disinfectant at Trump-funded ICE detention center over Covid, activists say. Revealed: Detainees at the Adelanto facility in California have ...