Diana Sanchez Ledezma arrived at the Otay Mesa Detention Center on December 18, 2025.
Throughout her long first day there, Diana was taken in and out of the holding cell for processing, growing irritated and frustrated. She had tried to call her family using the phone in the cell, but they were unable to hear her.
In a statement to L.A. TACO, CoreCivic said that there are multiple phones available in intake and in their housing units in the Otay Mesa facility.
Diana tried to refuse the medical screening process and initially, a pregnancy test, as well.
She thought about the horror stories she had heard, gossip from other detainees, about women being forced into abortions or having their uteruses taken out while in immigration detention, and she was scared to take the test.