CHICAGO (AP) — A judge opened a court hearing Tuesday into allegations of heartless conditions at a key Chicago-area immigration building that is a stop for people rounded up during immigration sweeps by the Trump administration.

The government is accused of denying detainees proper access to food, water and medical care and coercing them to sign documents they don't understand. Without that knowledge, and without private communication with lawyers, they have unknowingly relinquished their rights and faced deportation , the lawsuit alleges.

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