Judge orders US to provide California ICE detainees with medical care, attorneys and blankets

Order comes after seven people in California City facility allege they were denied medications, food and sanitation

The US government must provide detainees at a California immigration detention center with adequate medical care, access to attorneys, and “temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets”, a federal judge has ruled.

The order came on Tuesday in response to a lawsuit filed by seven people detained at the California City detention facility in November, alleging they had been denied essential medications, sufficient food and sanitary housing conditions.

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