US judge sides with migrants in case against Border Patrol

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ASTRID GALVAN

PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. judge in Arizona sided Wednesday with migrants who have long-complained about inhumane and unsanitary conditions in some U.S. Border Patrol facilities in the state.

The ruling came weeks after the conclusion of a seven-day trial in which attorneys for migrants who sued in 2015 argued that the agency holds immigrants in extremely cold, overcrowded, unsanitary and inhumane conditions.

The order makes permanent a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bury issued in 2016 requiring the Tucson Sector to provide clean mats and thin blankets to migrants held for longer than 12 hours and to allow them to clean themselves.

It also bars the agency from holding migrants more than 48 hours if they’ve been fully processed, which is common when other agencies involved in taking the migrants, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, don’t have the capacity to pick them up in a reasonable amount of time.



FILE - This September, 2015, file image made from U.S. Border Patrol surveillance video shows a child crawling on the concrete floor near the bathroom area of a holding cell, and a woman and children wrapped in Mylar sheets at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in Douglas, Ariz. A U.S. judge in Arizona has issued a permanent order requiring the Border Patrol to provide clean mats and thin blankets to migrants within 12 hours of arriving at a facility. The order issued on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, applies to eight Border Patrol stations in Arizona following a lawsuit that claims the agency holds migrants in overcrowded, unsafe and inhumane conditions. (U.S. Border Patrol via AP, File)


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[awesomerwb1]

1. Bye judge.

[dware]

4. What do you mean bye judge? nt

[awesomerwb1]

7. Dump will get rid of him somehow

[dware]

8. The Mango Menace has no say in getting rid of him.

Only the Congress can get rid of him by impeachment in the House and conviction and removal in the Senate, and that just ain't going to happen.

[awesomerwb1]

11. You're not thinking outside the box.

These aren't normal times. Different way to get "rid" of the judge.

He can tweet and unleash his MAGAts to make life miserable for the guy who is already 77 years old resulting in his resignation for example.

This is my last post about this. bye

[lunatica]

14. Trump's followers are more bark than bite.

The judge could probably have them arrested for inciting violence.

Trump’s unleashed minions are little more than hot air unless it’s a politician who can only survive if he gets the votes he needs.

We’ve all made too much out of Trump’s useless idiocrats.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Fascists of this era don't want to put the "undesireables" in camps and kill them en masse...

they want to put them in camps and milk their suffering for a buck.

[Judi Lynn]

6. So well stated. They have "evolved." Glad you said it. n/t

[OneCrazyDiamond]

3. W appointee n/t

[dware]

5. Even republican appointed judges are getting sick of this shit. nt.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

9. Only the past Republicans.

Current crop coming out of the senate are trumpee appointees.

[dware]

10. Yup, there is that. nt.

[riversedge]

12. Shameful Trump America!

Currently migrants are held on the floors of said facilities, which have been infamously dubbed “hieleras,” or iceboxes, with mylar blankets.

The judge ruled that CBP will not be able to hold people for more than 48 hours “unless and until CBP can provide conditions of confinement that meet detainees’ basic human needs for sleeping in a bed with a blanket, a shower, food that meets acceptable dietary standards, potable water, and medical assessment performed by a medical professional.”

The lawsuit was first filed in 2015, before the most recent influx of asylum-seekers, which Bury reportedly expressed frustration with in the final days of the case’s trial.

“Nobody has done anything. Is that why a court has to jump in?” Bury asked during the last day of trial on Jan. 22, according to The Associated Press. “It just seems like the lack of a response to these numbers just calls for a court order.”

[progressoid]

15. Except the lawsuit was filed in 2015 during the Obama Administration.

[Karadeniz]

13. Good!