Images show crowded, dirty Border Patrol cells in Arizona
Source: Associated Press
Images show crowded, dirty Border Patrol cells in Arizona
Astrid Galvan, Associated Press
Updated 7:39 pm, Thursday, August 18, 2016
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Images filed as evidence in a lawsuit against the U.S. Border Patrol citing inhumane conditions in Arizona detention facilities show men jammed together under a thin thermal blanket trying to stay warm and a woman using a concrete floor strewn with trash to change a baby's diaper.
The photos made public Thursday are from cell surveillance video inside least four Border Patrol stations.
They were submitted late Wednesday in a lawsuit against the Border Patrol for conditions described as disgusting in the agency's Tucson sector, which makes up most of Arizona.
The National Immigration Law Center and the ACLU argued in court that the images should be made public to help prove allegations that the Border Patrol routinely holds immigrants in extremely cold and dirty cells.
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