Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit over conditions at the largest immigration detention center in California, as migrant advocates and Democratic members of Congress have pressed for more oversight of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement expansion.
The complaint in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, filed Wednesday, focuses on detainees at the California City Detention Facility, a previously shuttered state prison in the Mojave Desert that the U.S. has repurposed as an ICE detention facility.
The ACLU and other groups describe a range of inhospitable conditions at the facility that they call unconstitutional, including a lack of access to medical care, insufficient accommodations for people with disabilities and infringement upon religious exercise of detainees.
