Chicago-Area ICE Detainees Must Be Provided Food, Bedding, Soap

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Chicago suburbs must provide detainees adequate food, hygiene products, showers, and bedding, a federal judge ordered.

Judge Robert Gettleman of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order that also requires holding rooms at the Broadview facility to be cleaned at least twice a day.

The facility was never intended for long-term stays, but the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” immigration enforcement effort has aggressively ramped up the number of immigration arrests in recent months. That has led to overcrowding and filthy, inhumane conditions, plaintiffs ...