This will be short and putrid. Absolutely toxic. Fetid and rotten. And happening in America. TODAY.
We’ve all seen at least one Holocaust movie, we’ve learned something about the death camps, most of us have seen actual photos or even visited the sites in Germany.
Even for us, it is hard to believe that very same cruel and inhumane treatment is now occurring to masses of people, openly in cities across America. (Well, perhaps not the actual mass extermination part yet — but who really knows where it will stop?)
Can any judge or court stop this?
CHICAGO — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials overhaul its processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview in order to make it more humane.
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman’s ruling followed hours of testimony the previous day from undocumented immigrants who testified they were pressured to sign voluntary deportation forms in order to escape the facility’s overcrowded and filthy conditions.
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Published November 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM CST
Do people understand or know what is going on here?
CHICAGO — A federal judge on Tuesday heard hours of testimony from undocumented immigrants who have recently been detained at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview — a place described as a “black box” in a lawsuit filed last week alleging horrific conditions and overcrowding.
After listening to five former detainees describe nights trying to sleep on plastic chairs or the cold concrete floor and days eating small rations of cold sandwiches and largely failing to get in touch with families or legal counsel, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman concluded the conditions were “unnecessarily cruel.”
“Sleeping shoulder to shoulder next to filthy toilets that are overflowing, surrounded by human waste,” the judge said. “It’s just unacceptable.”
Former detainees grow emotional while judge weighs temporary restraining order
byHannah Meisel
The conditions in the building which is officially classified as a “processing facility where detainees aren’t supposed to spend more than 12 hours at a time before being transferred to detention facilities” are so bad, the lawsuit that brought this to the judge’s attention alleges that ICE is disregarding minimum standards for facilities like Broadview.
The attorneys further allege ICE is “using the filthy environment as leverage to pressure those held inside into signing the (self-deportation) papers.”
Judge Gettleman’s temporary restraining order should force ICE to clean up the facility — but I am skeptical.
The judge ordered agency officials to clean each holding cell at least twice per day and provide detainees with soap, towels, toilet paper, toothbrushes and toothpaste.
Under the order, detainees are entitled to a shower at least once every other day. Those who testified Tuesday described the smell of hundreds of people who hadn’t bathed or changed out of their clothes in days.
Additionally, those held in Broadview must be fed three full meals a day along with bottles of water whenever they ask for them. Detainees testified that they were only given cold sandwiches two or three times a day and were ignored when they asked for more water.
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What can we do?
What will we do?
