Attorneys for the federal government have until Thursday to reach a deal with lawyers on legal representation for detainees
Protests call for an end to immigration raids in the Twin cities which have resulted in the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti, a VA nurse, and Renee Good, by federal agents; (below) US District Judge Nancy Brasel. Pic/PTI
Attorneys for the federal government have until Thursday to reach an agreement with human rights lawyers who are seeking to ensure the right to counsel for people detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Minnesota, US District Judge Nancy Brasel said on Saturday. Advocates said people held at the facility on the edge of Minneapolis who face possible deportation are denied adequate access to lawyers, including in-person meetings.
Brasel told Justice Department attorney Christina Parascandola that there seemed to be a “very wide factual disconnect” between what the human rights lawyers allege and the government’s claims of adequate access at what ICE depicts as only a temporary holding facility. “The gap here is so enormous I don’t know how you’re going to close it,” the judge said.
Democratic US Representative Kelly Morrison, of Minnesota, said in a statement on Saturday that conditions at the detention center continue to be poor. Some Minnesota detainees including families with children have been sent to the Texas facility, and some have returned to Minnesota after courts intervened. “I am stunned by the inability or unwillingness of the federal agents to answer some of the most basic questions about their operations and protocols,” Morrison said in a statement.
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