Immigrants say they were treated ‘worse than animals’ inside a facility that’s become a focal point for protests
A federal judge has ordered Homeland Security officials to improve conditions inside a Chicago-area immigrant detention facility where detainees say they are treated “worse than animals” and packed into unsanitary holding cells “like a pile of fish.”
Wednesday’s temporary restraining order from District Judge Robert W. Gettleman follows several hours of courtroom testimony from five people who have been crammed inside the Broadview Processing Center, a focal point for protests against Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
“It has really become a prison,” Gettleman said during a hearing Tuesday.
ICE doesn’t just need orders, they need active monitoring and enforcement.
ICE needs to melt
I prefer my ICE crushed.
Yep there needs to be some auditing, accountability and most importantly consequences when guidelines aren’t adhered to.
Judge Gettleman has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide three meals a day, adequate supplies of water, access to prescription medicine, clean bedding and space to sleep for any detainee held there overnight, with “adequate supplies of soap, towels, toilet paper, oral hygiene products (including toothbrushes and toothpaste) and menstrual products for women detainees.”
Holding cells and toilets are to be cleaned, and detainees should have access to showers “at least every other day,” according to the order.
If you have to order the waiter to bring you a soup the chef didn’t spit in you should probably just skip ahead to finding a different place to eat
Jana also claimed that the government “has improved the operations at the Broadview facility over the last couple months.”
And if that was sufficient, the government would have no trouble meeting the minimum standards imposed by Judge Gettleman then.
“orders”
