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[quote=Anonymous]Why is there this lengthy thread blaming the Trump admin. for the conditions at detention facilities when this was all started under Obama?

https://www.aila.org/File/Related/14111359v.pdf

[quote]In its [b]July 24, 2015[/b] Order, this Court found that “[i]n light of the voluminous evidence that Plaintiffs have presented of the egregious conditions of the holding cells [at Border Patrol Stations], . . . Defendants have materially breached the Agreement’s term that Defendants provide ‘safe and sanitary’ holding cells for class members while they are in temporary custody.” 212 F. Supp. 3d at 882. The Court referred to Paragraph 12A of the Agreement, which provides that class members shall be held in “safe and sanitary” facilities following arrest. Such CBP facilities, where class members spend one to several nights before transfer to a family residential center (accompanied minors) or to the Office of Refugee Settlement (unaccompanied minors), must “provide access to toilets and sinks, drinking water and food as appropriate, . . . [and] adequate temperature control and ventilation.” Agreement ¶ 12; see also 6 U.S.C. § 279. The conditions at these facilities must also be “consistent with the INS’s concern for the particular vulnerability of minors.” Agreement ¶ 12A.
At the time of the Court’s July 24, 2015 Order, Defendants relied solely on their Hold Rooms and Short Term Custody Policy as well as a single declaration from a Border Patrol officer to support their position that they satisfied the Agreement’s standards. 212 F. Supp. 3d at 881–82. Moreover, they argued that it would be impossible for them to provide the same level of care at the Border Patrol stations that they offered at longer-term facilities due to the short duration of stay at the Border Patrol stations and the large volume of individuals that pass through. Id.
Here, Plaintiffs argue that Defendants continue to detain class members in deplorable and unsanitary conditions in violation of the Agreement. Plaintiffs present voluminous testimony from class members in the form of declarations and deposition excerpts, which attest to the unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the CBP facilities in five different categories: (1) inadequate food; (2) inadequate access to clean drinking water; (3) inadequate hygiene (bathrooms, soap, towels, toothbrushes); (4) cold temperatures; and (5) inadequate sleeping conditions.[/quote][/quote]

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