When a 22-year-old woman in immigration custody took the witness stand Monday and said she hadn’t had anything to eat since she was rousted at 2 a.m. for the drive from a detention center in Tacoma to federal court in Eugene, the judge immediately halted the hearing.

“OK, that’s unacceptable,” U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken said about eight minutes into the 9:30 a.m. hearing.

Aiken said she wouldn’t continue until federal officers fed her. The judge even offered up her own lunch so the woman wouldn’t go hungry.

“I’m extraordinarily upset and disappointed that’s how we’re treating people,” she said.

Aiken directed the U.S. Department of Justice lawyers on the case to relay her disgust to their bosses.

“That should never happen. I am absolutely appalled,” the judge said. “That needs to

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