Judge calls alleged conditions at Chicago-area immigration site ‘disgusting’ Nation Nov 4, 2025 2:05 PM EST

CHICAGO (AP) — Allegations of heartless conditions at a key Chicago-area immigration building are “disgusting,” a judge said Tuesday before hearing evidence that could lead to changes at a site that is a stop for people rounded up by the Trump administration.

The government is accused of denying detainees proper access to food, water and medical care and coercing them to sign documents they don’t understand. Without that knowledge, and without private communication with lawyers, they have unknowingly relinquished their rights and faced deportation, the lawsuit alleges.

“This is not an issue of not getting a toilet or a Fiji water bottle,” attorney Alexa Van Brunt of the MacArthu

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