Detainees are held in harrowing conditions at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview, which is operating like a “black site” where people are little access to attorneys and are coerced to sign away their rights, attorneys argued Tuesday morning before a federal judge.

Less than a week after attorneys filed a class-action lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions at the west suburban facility, attorneys on behalf of detainees asked U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman to issue a restraining order prohibiting the government from keeping people in substandard conditions and also allow immediate access to attorneys.

“The government is trying so doggedly to deport people at such a fast rate … access to counsel is more important than ever,” said Alexa Van Brunt,

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