Rights groups allege abuses at largest US immigrations detention center
Key takeaways
- The ACLU, Human Rights Watch, the Texas Civil Rights Project and others filed the 78-page lawsuit in the U.S.
- The Hill has reached out to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment.
- And in the ten months that it has been operational, the facility has become notorious for flagrant human rights abuses that people endure during their detention, the lawsuit reads.
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The ACLU, Human Rights Watch, the Texas Civil Rights Project and others filed the 78-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. They are asking the court to find the conditions at the facility violated the Fifth Amendment right to due process of those detained and the Administrative Procedure Act.
The Hill has reached out to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment.
The groups state in the lawsuit that the federal government rushed to erect and populate a massive tent encampment on the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso… in August 2025, and that the facility has a state capacity of 5,000 detained human beings.