The federal government is using the “Louisiana Lockup” at Angola to illegally punish immigrants twice for the same offense, the American Civil Liberties Union claimed Monday in a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump’s administration.

The federal lawsuit, filed Monday in the Middle District of Louisiana, argues that a detainee is being held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola even though his deportation order is more than 6 months old, which the ACLU says is unconstitutional.

And by holding immigrants at a facility located on the grounds of the country’s largest maximum-security prison, the Trump administration is using the is immigration system, whose proceedings are civil, to dole out criminal punishment, the lawsuit says.

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