19-08-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com

Detained immigrants sue over conditions, medical care

Immigrants held in U.S. detention facilities filed a lawsuit Monday decrying what they called shoddy medical care and a failure by authorities to provide accommodations for disabilities.In the suit filed by disability and civil rights advocates in U.S. District Court, immigrants said they're placed in isolation as punishment and denied recommended medical treatment and surgery.The problems harm disabled immigrants and threaten anyone in one of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's more than 50,0
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