Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

The federal government has agreed to extend until April a temporary restraining order requiring improved conditions at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview, putting off a courtroom face-off that was scheduled for next week.

In the wake of a class-action lawsuit filed in October, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman last month issued the temporary order ordering the federal government to provide immigration detainees enough food, water and bed space, among other remedies, finding that conditions at the ICE holding facility in Broadview do not “pass constitutional muster.”

The complaint, filed on behalf of two former detainees of the west suburban facility, accuses DHS officials of warehousing people for

See Full Page