Trumps AZ migrant detention facilities, where some sleep in bathroom stalls, are unfit for humans...

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Arizona migrant detention facilities, where some sleep in bathroom stalls, are unfit for humans, judge rules
Meagan Flynn 6 days ago


A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that Border Patrol facilities in the Tucson sector deprive migrants of “basic human needs,” saying the conditions at the temporary detention facilities are “substantially worse” than those in jails or prisons and violate the Constitution.


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The Wednesday ruling permanently enjoins U.S. Customs and Border Protection from detaining migrants in holding cells at its Tucson sector stations for longer than 48 hours — “unless CBP can provide conditions of confinement that meet detainees’ basic human needs.”

That means migrants staying any longer than two days must be provided a variety of things they have not been getting: sleep free from constant disruption, in a real bed with a blanket; nutritious food; access to a shower; and a medical assessment by a medical professional.

The ruling also says CBP must immediately stop making migrants sleep in “toilet areas” because of overcrowding.

“Regardless of whether a detainee is sleeping on a mat or directly on the concrete floor, being forced to sleep in a toilet area due to overcrowding offends the notions of common decency,” Bury, a George W. Bush appointee in the District of Arizona, wrote in the 40-page order. “It is unsanitary and degrading for all detainees who either have to sleep in the toilet area or try to use the toilet when others are sleeping there.”
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Bury’s ruling, which follows a seven-day bench trial in January, makes permanent a 2016 temporary injunction that compelled CBP to provide mats and silver Mylar blankets to all detainees; many were previously sleeping on the bare concrete floor.

The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2015 by the National Immigration Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Immigration Council, Morrison & Foerster, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area to combat filthy Obama-era conditions. But the case extends through the Trump administration, with most evidence at trial spanning 2017 to 2019, an attorney for the migrants told The Washington Post.

At one point during the trial, attorneys for the migrants showed surveillance video footage of a migrant trying to climb over people sleeping in a “toilet area” to reach a bathroom stall — only to find people sleeping in the stalls as well.
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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Have been waiting for a out break of

a Viral infection to hit this filthy Cages. It is about to get real damn fast.

[Leghorn21]

2. The first fkn thing we do is empty these death camps

FIRST THING

and if the Coronavirus gets into these places.........

fear and loathing here, omg

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Deplorables create deplorable conditions for others. whodathunkit?