"Asylum-seekers have been held there for "sometimes up to six days" in "small, cold rooms, sometimes with hardly enough space to sit, let alone sleep," the suit alleges."They are kept for days without basic hygiene supplies, access to bathing facilities, a change of clothes, or prescribed medications." The holding cells were designed for short stays, usually less than 12 hours, when immigrants arrested by ICE are waiting to be transferred to long-term detention elsewhere in California or out of state."
"The class-action suit, filed Sept. 18 in the Northern District of California, alleges harsh conditions for immigrants held at 630 Sansome St., the ICE field office in downtown San Francisco that is a few floors below an immigration court. The ACLU's suit, which was filed alongside the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco and CARECEN, is on behalf of three plaintiffs - Carmen Aracely Pablo Sequen, Martin Hernandez-Torres, and Ligia Garcia - who are asylum seekers and were all detained at 630 Sansome."
ACLU and local groups filed a class-action suit in the Northern District of California alleging harsh, punitive conditions at ICE's 630 Sansome field office in downtown San Francisco. The suit names three asylum-seeker plaintiffs who were held in small, cold rooms for extended periods, sometimes up to six days, without adequate space, hygiene supplies, bathing access, clothing changes, or prescribed medications. The holding cells were designed for short stays under 12 hours, but ICE raised the limit to 72 hours in June, and reporting documented spikes in longer detentions. The field office has decades of detention history and recent protest activity.
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