Order comes after seven people in California City facility allege they were denied medications, food and sanitation
The US government must provide detainees at a California immigration detention center with adequate medical care, access to attorneys, and “temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets”, a federal judge has ruled.
The order came on Tuesday in response to a lawsuit filed by seven people detained at the California City detention facility in November, alleging they had been denied essential medications, sufficient food and sanitary housing conditions.
Residents at the facility had previously described the center as a “torture chamber” and “hell on earth” in interviews with the Guardian.
Human decency, but only under court order, and only if ICE chooses to comply.
So, they are being made to follow the law, right?
It’s a court order. They treat those as optional because the courts aren’t willing to impose any meaningful penalty for noncompliance.
And? You think ice will care about judge orders?
“Give them the basics?! What, are you a commie?!??”
So after ICE completely ignore the law (as is their tradition), what punishments are going to be visited upon the relevant ICEholes? A strongly-worded letter? Slap on the wrist with a wet lettuce leaf? Riot police storming the facility and beating the rogue agency staff into submission before arresting them?
(That last one was, of course, nothing more than a little fantabulism).
