Broadview ICE facility a ‘black box’ where immigrants denied access to lawyers, medicine, lawsuit claims

For months, immigrants held at the federal Broadview ICE facility have been describing terrible conditions they’ve experienced: overcrowding, poor food, nowhere to sleep, isolation from the outside world — including no access to legal counsel.

On Thursday, immigrants rights lawyers and advocates filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration’s top immigration enforcement officials, on behalf of two men and everyone who’s been jailed in the immigration processing facility turned de facto detention center, calling the center a “black box in which to disappear people from the U.S. justice and immigration systems.”

And now, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman has called for a hearing Tuesday to entertain a request for a temporary restraining order that would govern conditions in the facil