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   From: ruty@yahoo.com   
      
   PHOENIX — A U.S. judge in Arizona sided Wednesday with migrants who have   
   long complained about inhumane and unsanitary conditions in some U.S.   
   Border Patrol facilities in the state.   
      
   The ruling came weeks after the conclusion of a seven-day trial in which   
   attorneys for migrants who sued in 2015 argued that the agency holds   
   immigrants in extremely cold, overcrowded, unsanitary and inhumane   
   conditions.   
      
   The order makes permanent a preliminary injunction that U.S. District   
   Judge David C. Bury issued in 2016 requiring the Tucson Sector to provide   
   clean mats and thin blankets to migrants held for longer than 12 hours and   
   to allow them to clean themselves.   
      
   It also bars the agency from holding migrants more than 48 hours if   
   they’ve been fully processed, which is common when other agencies   
   involved in taking the migrants, such as Immigration and Customs   
   Enforcement, don’t have the capacity to pick them up in a reasonable   
   amount of time.   
      
   Bury is also banning the use of bathrooms for sleeping, which came to   
   light during the trial this year, when video was shown of a man trying to   
   reach a bathroom but failing to because migrants were sleeping in them.   
      
   Although the lawsuit predates last year’s surge in immigrant arrivals, it   
   illustrates some of the challenges posed when migrants are detained,   
   especially if they are children.   
      
   In his order Wednesday, Bury wrote that the Border Patrol and its parent   
   agencies, or the defendants in the case, “administer a detention system   
   that deprives detainees, who are held in CBP stations, Tucson Sector,   
   longer than 48 hours, of conditions of confinement that meet basic human   
   needs.”   
      
   Bury has been critical of the agency, saying it has done little to remedy   
   issues, especially around overcrowding and migrants’ inability to sleep.   
      
   “Nobody has done anything. Is that why a court has to jump in?” Bury   
   asked during the last day of trial on Jan. 22. “It just seems like the   
   lack of a response to these numbers just calls for a court order.”   
      
   Government attorneys say plaintiffs didn’t prove the agency violated any   
   constitutional rights. It says many things are out of the agency’s   
   control, such as whether other agencies involved in taking migrants have   
   capacity.   
      
   Its facilities were built of short-term stays, for adults. Holding cells   
   are in odd shapes, reducing the number of sleeping mats that can   
   comfortably fit on the ground. On nights when agents arrest large groups   
   of people, or when other agencies involved in immigration don’t have the   
   capacity to pick them up, cells become extremely overcrowded.   
      
   A video displayed on the opening day of the trial showed a man walking   
   over body after body as he tried to make his way to the bathroom. Once   
   there, he realized all stalls had people sleeping in them.   
      
   Migrants have long decried conditions in Border Patrol facilities, now   
   infamously known as hieleras, or iceboxes. And although the Tucson Sector   
   hasn’t experienced the massive number of immigrants that other parts of   
   the Southwest border has, the number of hours that migrants spend in   
   custody there has continued to grow.   
      
   About 12,000 people were in custody for more than 72 hours in the Tucson   
   Sector last year, or about 20%. The average time in custody was nearly 54   
   hours.   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-judge-sides-migrants-arizona-   
   case-against-border-patrol-n1139101   
      
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