'Today's decision is a tremendous victory for communities everywhere fighting courageously to uphold human dignity,' said Alvaro Huerta, staff attorney at the National Immigration Law Center.
A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that conditions at U.S. border holding cells operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency violated the Constitution.
It also heard that cell conditions were unsanitary, with a lack of waste receptacles,"insufficient housekeeping," a lack of personal hygiene products and shower facilities, as well as insufficient access to food and water. Condemning CBP for allowing migrants and asylum seekers to be forced to sleep in bathrooms in overcrowded holding areas, Bury said the practice was"unsanitary and degrading" and banned CBP from allowing it to happen again.
The conditions at Tucson Sector facilities, he said, fail to meet the same standards. As such, he said,"there is a presumption that the conditions of extended confinement at the Tucson Sector facilities violate the Plaintiffs' constitutional rights." "Through this lawsuit, we have been able to shed light on the realities of the inhumane treatment of migrants in CBP detention facilities. In its decision, the court recognized that conditions in CBP's Tucson Sector are 'substantially worse' than those afforded criminal detainees in jail facilities," said Mary Kenney, directing attorney of litigation with the American Immigration Council.
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