A federal judge has extended an order requiring the Trump administration to improve conditions at a Manhattan immigration facility, first issued after migrants alleged the holding cells there were dirty, smelly and overcrowded.
The temporary restraining order, which came down earlier this month , places restrictions on how many people U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can hold at 26 Federal Plaza, where immigrants often report for court hearings .
A lawsuit — filed by the immigrant rights organization Make the Road New York, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union — sought court intervention to end what plaintiff lawyer Heather Gregorio called “inhumane and horrifying conditions."
In court filings, detainees complained they had no soap, too