A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in New York to improve conditions for illegal migrants it detains in a federal building in downtown Manhattan.
Civil Rights groups claim the facility is overcrowded and that illegal migrants are being treated inhumanely because they do not have sufficient access to certain medications, hygiene products and legal counsel, per The Hill.
The Justice Department has confirmed that the detainees are not given medication or sleeping bags and are fed two meals a day, but denied the facility was overcrowded.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled ICE needs to provide access to certain items on request, including clean clothing, soap, feminine hygiene products, bedding, medication and access to medical personnel.
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