Immigration Advocates File Lawsuit Against ICE

Immigration Asylum — FILE - In this July 17, 2019, file photo, a United States Customs and Border Protection Officer checks the documents of migrants before being taken to apply for asylum in the United States, on International Bridge 1 in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. On Wednesday, July 24, 2019, a federal judge in San Francisco will hear arguments in a challenge to the new Trump Administration policy that requires asylum-seekers who cross through a third country headed to the U.S. to first apply for protection in that other country. The lawsuit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Center for Constitutional Rights as they seek a temporary restraining order to block the plan. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File

Jason Turesky is an Associate Producer for Boston Public Radio.

August 22, 2019

Immigration advocates have filed a sweeping class-action lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, accusing the agency of not providing adequate mental health and medical care to the people they detain.

Ali Noorani, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, joined Boston Public Radio Thursday to discuss the lawsuit and the conditions immigrants detained by ICE live in.

"This class action lawsuit makes the case that the administration is really putting people in harm's way because we are seeing increased numbers of people detained, but we aren't seeing an increase in services provided," Noorani said.

Jason Turesky is an Associate Producer for Boston Public Radio.