As ordered, twice, by a federal judge, ICE last week brought Mirian Ximena Abarca Tixe back from the Texas gulag it had stuck her in - and locked her up in an 8x10 room in the basement of its Burlington office building, with a toilet, but no windows, bed or sink, where it says it will now keep her until it kicks her out of the country one of these days, despite its own admission the building is not suitable for long-term detention.

In a filing today, Abarca Tixe's lawyer, Elizabeth Shaw of Boston, says that's both cruel and unconstitutional and asked US District Court Judge George O'Toole to order her immediate freedom as she fights to stay in the country with her husband - also subject to possible deportation - and their young child.

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