"A group of detained immigrants who say their rights are being violated at the California City immigration detention facility in the Mojave Desert will get their first day in court on Friday before a federal judge in San Francisco. The detainees are asking U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney to order ICE to ensure that conditions improve so they comply with the Rehabilitation Act and the 1st and 5th amendments to the Constitution."
"They're also asking her to make the case a class action to cover everyone held at the California City facility. Nearly three-quarters of the roughly 1,000 people held at the detention center, 100 miles north of Los Angeles and 75 miles east of Bakersfield, have no criminal conviction. And in any case, immigration detention is a civil matter, not a sentence for a crime."
Detained immigrants at the California City immigration detention facility in the Mojave Desert allege meager medical care, inadequate access to lawyers, and punishing treatment, and have filed a lawsuit seeking court orders to force improvements. They ask a federal judge to require ICE to comply with the Rehabilitation Act and the First and Fifth Amendments and to certify a class action covering all detainees. Nearly three-quarters of about 1,000 detainees have no criminal conviction and immigration detention is a civil matter. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security contest the claims, arguing law does not demand treatment beyond prisoner standards and calling reported lapses isolated.
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