Immigrants housed at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan face “crowded, squalid and punitive conditions,” and are being deprived of access to attorneys, according to a class-action lawsuit brought by a Peruvian man against Homeland Security officials.

According to the complaint, “people are detained for extended periods of time, often for a week or more, sleeping on the concrete floor next to the toilet, in cells that are either freezing or oppressively hot.” The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, New York Civil Liberties Union and Make the Road New York on behalf of Sergio Alberto Barco Mercado and others.

The lawsuit names Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons and other Trump administration official

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