A man held at California\u2019s newest and largest immigration detention center could face \u201cimminent death,\u201d attorneys argued in an emergency motion filed late Tuesday, asking a federal judge to order ICE to immediately provide lifesaving medical care to him and another detainee.<\/p>\n
In a motion for a temporary restraining order, attorneys said that Yuri Alexander Roque Campos and Fernando Viera Reyes \u2014 plaintiffs in a federal class action lawsuit<\/a> alleging \u201cinhumane\u201d and \u201cpunitive\u201d conditions at California City Detention Facility in the Mojave Desert \u2014 are experiencing \u201cacute medical distress and need immediate specialized medical attention.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTheir risk of severe illness\u2014and in Mr. Roque Campos\u2019s case, imminent death\u2014is real and rising by the day,\u201d the motion states.<\/p>\n At a hearing Wednesday morning, U.S. District Judge Maxine M. Chesney gave the government until 4 p.m. on Monday to resolve the issue or file an opposition, according to Tess Borden, a lawyer with the Prison Law Office, which brought the class action lawsuit, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice and Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP. The judge set a hearing, if needed, for next Tuesday in San Francisco.<\/p>\n The class action lawsuit, filed last month in the Northern District of California against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleges \u201cdecrepit\u201d conditions inside the detention facility. <\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the emergency motion or about the treatment that\u2019s been provided to Roque Campos and Viera Reyes.<\/p>\n Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin previously told The Times that \u201cno one is denied access to proper medical care.\u201d<\/p>\n