"Bay Area immigrant rights advocates have filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to end its controversial immigration courthouse arrests and stop federal officers from detaining people for days in a San Francisco holding facility not meant for overnight use. The unprecedented tactic has triggered heated protests, with some activists attempting to block arrests and getting into clashes with ICE officers."
"The class action lawsuit, filed late Thursday, challenges ICE and the Executive Office of Immigration Review, which runs the courts, for abruptly reversing longstanding policies that had protected immigration hearings to ensure people fighting to stay in the U.S. got their day in court. Now, people arrested at immigration court, at ICE check-in appointments and elsewhere are locked up overnight - some as long as six days - without bedding, hygiene products or access to prescribed medication, according to the lawsuit."
""There's a single, shared toilet in the room that everyone has to use in front of each other," said Kashyap. "The rooms are often very cold and so people who are kept there overnight are forced to try and sleep in a freezing cold metal box with no bed, where the lights are on all the time. The conditions are really punitive and punishing in a way that our lawsuit contends is unconstitutional.""
Bay Area immigrant rights advocates filed a federal class-action lawsuit seeking to halt ICE courthouse arrests and to prevent federal officers from detaining people for days in a San Francisco holding facility unsuited for overnight stays. The suit challenges ICE and the Executive Office of Immigration Review for abruptly reversing longstanding policies that protected access to immigration hearings. Plaintiffs allege people arrested at court and ICE check-ins are confined overnight for up to six days without bedding, hygiene supplies, or prescribed medication. The complaint describes cold, brightly lit cells with a single shared toilet and contends the conditions are punitive and unconstitutional. The suit was filed on behalf of asylum seekers arrested at immigration court.
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