SAN JOSE, Calif. - A team of immigrant rights lawyers, including the ACLU, sued the federal government on Thursday in a class action suit, alleging that the conditions of the ICE facility in San Francisco are "squalid" and inhumane, where immigrants have been held for up to six days, made to go to the bathroom in front of each other, and forced to sleep on the floor under bright lights, which is essentially a form of torture.

‘Squalid, inhumane’

The suit was filed in the San Jose branch of the U.S. District Court in Northern California and names the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and two of the dozen defendants.

The attorneys are representing four immigrants: Carmen Aracely Pablo Sequen, 30, an asylum seeker from Guatemala with no cri

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