* Capitol News Illinois…

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials overhaul its processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview in order to make it more humane.

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman’s ruling followed hours of testimony the previous day from undocumented immigrants who testified they were pressured to sign voluntary deportation forms in order to escape the facility’s overcrowded and filthy conditions.

“People shouldn’t be sleeping next to overflowing toilets,” the judge said during a brief hearing late Wednesday afternoon before issuing his temporary restraining order. “They shouldn’t be sleeping on top of each other. They shouldn’t be sleeping in plastic chairs. They shouldn’t be sleeping on concrete floors.”

* Sun-Times…

Among other demands, the judge is requiring officials at the ICE facility to provide detainees with a clean bedding mat “with sufficient space to sleep”; adequate supplies of soap, toilet paper, towels, oral hygiene and menstrual products; a shower for at least every other day; three full meals with water per day; and prescribed medication. Holding cells must be cleaned twice per day.

The order also requires detainees be ensured communication with attorneys in privacy, a list of attorneys available for hire and access to a phone. The feds also will be required to enter each detainee into an ICE online detainee locator system. […]

He said the order will not go into effect immediately, noting, “I wouldn’t expect it to be at the snap of a finger.” Gettleman told the government lawyers to provide him an update by noon Friday on the status of the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to comply with the order.

Also Wednesday, plaintiffs’ lawyers said they’re looking for more information that will give them a better understanding of the space inside the detention facility. That includes video footage from inside the building, a list of detainees sent there, the documentation shared with detainees upon their arrival and policies governing the facility.

Click here for the full temporary restraining order.

* The Tribune…

Government attorneys had objected to the restraining order, arguing that complying with a broad set of requirements would hamper its ability to enforce immigration law in Illinois. They also rebutted some claims from detainees, telling the judge that there is water on-site and some hot meals are distributed.

But five former detainees who took the stand — including a woman who appeared via video from Honduras — described being ignored when they asked for more water. They said more than 150 people were routinely crammed into holding cells, leaving little space to try to lay on the floor to sleep.

Meals consisted of three small Subway sandwiches each day, they testified, and detainees had no privacy around the dirty and overflowing toilets, which were mostly out in the open in the holding cells.

“I don’t want anyone else to live through what I lived through,” Agustin Zamacona testified Tuesday.

* More from Capitol News Illinois…

Felipe Agustin Zamacona, the other named plaintiff in the case, said that when he told the agent processing him through Broadview that he “wanted to go in front of a judge,” the agent told him he needed to sign “court papers.”

But Zamacona, who testified in English and completed high school and some college in Chicago, said he could read what the forms actually said: “self-deportation.”

The judge ordered agents to “not misrepresent the contents of any papers they provide to detainees” and to provide translated versions of those documents, along with “reasonable time and opportunity” for detainees to read and understand them. […]

Claudia Carolina Pereira Guevara, a former Broadview detainee who testified remotely from Honduras said her request to speak with a lawyer while in ICE custody last month was denied. Eventually, she signed the voluntary deportation form and is now separated from her two young children who are staying with her brother in Joliet.

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* Block Club | Broadview ICE Facility Must Provide Basics Like Water, Calls With Attorneys Under Judge’s Order: Kevin Fee, an attorney with the ACLU working on the lawsuit, said he left court Wednesday “happy” with the order. “We’re very grateful for the judge to have given this relief,” Fee said. “Frankly, a court order should not have been necessary to bring this facility in compliance with the U.S. Constitution. But that is the day and age we’re in.”

* NYT | ‘Unnecessarily Cruel’: Judge Expresses Alarm About ICE Detention Conditions: Though it was not addressed in court on Tuesday, Catholic clergy members were recently blocked from administering Christian rites at the facility. Pope Leo XIV, who grew up in suburban Chicago, encouraged American immigration officials to allow faith leaders to deliver communion. The pope has spoken more forcefully against the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants in recent months. “I would certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to the needs” of detained immigrants, the pope said.

* WTTW | Federal Judge Orders Broadview ICE Detention Center to Improve Conditions, Access to Food and Water: According to the lawsuit, as of June 4, the median time a detainee was held at Broadview was nearly 48 hours — already four times longer than the supposed 12-hour limit for detainees. But by mid-June, ICE data showed the median detention time at Broadview had risen to three days, the lawsuit states, adding that the facility does not “have the capacity or capability to hold the number of detainees” currently being held.

* Fox Chicago | Judge orders feds to improve conditions at Broadview ICE facility: Attorneys asked to get inside the facility but were denied. They requested security video to get an idea of the setup and just how many people are really in there. They were told that video for half the month of October somehow disappeared.

* Sun-Times | Sen. Duckworth demands end to ’secret detentions’ of citizen protesters by FBI, calls for DOJ investigation: The senator is also asking for all communication requests of people seeking the location of citizens detained by immigration agents, and the cost of detaining people ultimately released without charges. “It has become the modus operandi of Federal agents operating in Chicago to abdicate responsibility for the people they snatch and deny having custody of our citizens for hours before ultimately releasing them, often without criminal charges,” Duckworth wrote in a letter addressed to Patel.