'I am afraid that I might die here': ICE detainee fears 'imminent death' without lifesaving care, lawyers say
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A man held at California’s newest and largest immigration detention center could face “imminent death,” attorneys argued in an emergency motion filed late Tuesday, asking a federal judge to order ICE to immediately provide lifesaving medical care to him and another detainee.In a motion for a temporary restraining order, attorneys said that Yuri Alexander Roque Campos and Fernando Viera Reyes — plaintiffs in a federal class action lawsuit alleging “inhumane” and “punitive” conditions at California City Detention Facility in the Mojave Desert — are experiencing “acute medical distress and need immediate specialized medical attention.”“Their risk of severe illness—and in Mr.Roque Campos’s case, imminent death—is real and rising by the day,” the motion states.At a hearing Wednesday morning, U.S.
District Judge Maxine M.Chesney gave the government until 4 p.m.
on Monday to resolve the issue or file an opposition, according to Tess Borden, a lawyer with the Prison Law Office, which brought the class action lawsuit, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice and Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP.The judge set a hearing, if needed, for next Tuesday in San Francisco.The class action lawsuit, filed last month in the Northern District of California against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleges “decrepit” conditions inside the detention facility.California At California City Detention Facility, immigrants file lawsuit over alleged ‘shockingly deficient’ medical care, frigid temperatures, bugs crawling on walls, sewage backups, inadequate food and water, and generally ‘decrepit’ conditions.The Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the emergency motion or about the treatment that’...