Trump officials ordered to urgently improve conditions at New York Ice jail | US immigration
On Tuesday, a Federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately improve the conditions in the New York City immigration facility and move to the complaints that imprisoned immigrants were dirty, fragrant and overcrowded.
Judge Lewis Kaplan, who decided on a case against detainees, issued a temporary restriction order that requires migration and customs application to limit, clean up and provide sleep mats, 26 federal plaza, 26 federal plaza, a government building in Manhattan.
The mobile phone video recorded by a prisoner last month, about two dozen men in one of the four waiting rooms of the building, showed that there were no mattresses or mattresses with thermal blankets.
In the court applications, the detainees complained that they were not soap, toothbrush or other hygiene products. They said that they were fed with “slop ve and partially endured the“ terrible smell of urine and stool because they had open toilets. The case said that a woman with a period could not use menstrual products because she was given only two to divide women in her room.
Kaplan ordered immigration authorities to allocate 50 square meters per person – after saying that 40 or more of the prisoners were stuck, the largest waiting room has reduced the capacity of the waiting room to about 15 people. He hosted the Migration Court and the FBI’s New York field office.
The judge ordered the government to clean the cells three times a day and provide sufficient hygiene products. Kaplan, who resolved the concerns of the detainees that he could not communicate with lawyers, ordered the government to accommodate secret legal phone calls.
In a hearing held on Tuesday, when a government lawyer acknowledges that some complaints are valid, “My result is a very serious threat to the continuation of irreparable injuries, considering the conditions I have been told to me.”
“26 We agree that the conditions in the Federal Plaza should be humane and we clearly share this belief, J Jeffrey S oesterucher, a government lawyer, said.
The lawsuit filed by the immigrant rights organization is doing the way of the New York, New York Civil Liberation Union and the Union of American Civil Libeons – the plaintiff’s lawyer Heather Gregorio asked for a court to intervene to end what he called “inhuman and terrifying conditions”.
Gregorio said that some detainees were made in 26 federal plaza much longer than the 72 -hour norm.
New York Migration Coalition President and CEO Murad Awawdeh welcomed Kaplan’s decision to decide as a “forward step ,, but the facility should be“ permanently closed ”.
After trying to lock a gun with a person, New York City supervisor Brad Lander, who was arrested in 26 Federal Plaza in June, said, “Trump’s brutal immigration policies are a very needed rebuke,” he said.
In a sworn declaration, Nancy Zanello from the ICE’s New York City Field Execution and Lift Operations Office wrote that 24 people were held in four waiting rooms of the building as of Monday.
There are at least one toilet and sink in each room, and hygiene products, including soap, dental cleaning handkerchiefs and feminine products.
The case, the plaintiff Sergio Barco Barco Mercado, said in a court that he was held in a court’s hearing while he was arrested there last week and 26 federal plaza last week.
Peru -born Barco Mercado, who said he was looking for asylum in the US in 2022, said that the holding room was “extremely crowded”, cold and “sewage smell ve and exacerbated a tooth infection that inflated the faces and changes his speech.
“We didn’t always get enough water, Bar said Barco Mercado. “Sometimes there was a guard to hold a bottle of water, and people would wait for him to gush our mouths like animals.”
Another detainee Carlos Lopez Benitez said that he had escaped violence in Paraguay in 2023 and was looking for asylum in the United States while leaving an immigrant hearing in July. Officers said he would be detained until the 2029 hearing about the asylum application.
Lopez Benitez said that the arrest of an officer showed a mobile phone photo and mocked because he cried. In the retention cell, civil servants detonated the air conditioner and filled the meals of “dog food” dishes.
