Immigrant detainees sue over 'horrific' conditions at Texas ICE facility
•National Immigrant detainees sue over 'horrific' conditions at Texas ICE facility May 30, 20268:55 PM ET Kristin Wright A sign marks the entrance to a series of hardened tents at the Camp East Montana...
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National Immigrant detainees sue over 'horrific' conditions at Texas ICE facility May 30, 20268:55 PM ET Kristin Wright A sign marks the entrance to a series of hardened tents at the Camp East Montana immigrant detention center in the desert at a U.S. Army base on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas, Feb. 13, 2026. Morgan Lee/AP hide caption toggle caption Morgan Lee/AP Four detainees at the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in the U.S. filed a federal lawsuit on Saturday alleging human rights abuses, "horrific" conditions and "severe medical neglect" at the facility. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, details "inhumane" treatment inside Camp East Montana on the U.S. Army's Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas. The suit describes a litany of abuse allegations, including a lack of medical care and physical violence at the hands of guards, and accuses the government of human rights and constitutional violations. Sponsor Message Immigration Emergency calls reveal conditions at the nation's largest immigration detention camp "Detained people are regularly subjected to severe beatings or sexual harassment by guards; squalid living conditions; spoiled and inadequate food; no meaningful programming or recreation; inadequate access to basic hygiene products such as soap, razors or nail clippers, outbreaks of disease; and limited or no access to sunlight," according to the complaint. It's the first lawsuit against the facility. Immigration advocates and former detainees have been calling for the massive facility to be shut down for months. The plaintiffs filed the suit on behalf of themselves, all detainees of the facility and future people held there. They're seeking class-action status for the legal challenge. According to the complaint, the center's guards beat Gerald Akari Angye, one of the named plaintiffs, so severely he had to be hospitalized and placed in a wheelchair. Angye, who has been at...المصدر: NPR | Source: NPR
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