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 LA hearing in ACLU’s detained immigrants lawsuit postponed

By City News Service 
PUBLISHED: June 25, 2018 at 8:27 am | UPDATED: June 25, 2018 at 7:34 pm
 

LOS ANGELES >> A hearing scheduled Monday in a civil rights group’s lawsuit calling for a permanent end to what it describes as the unconstitutional denial of attorney access to undocumented immigrants being detained by the Trump administration at a prison complex in the High Desert was postponed until next month.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit last week against officials of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies, alleging that hundreds of immigrants held at a medium security federal prison in Victorville “will suffer irreparable harm” if blocked from consulting with attorneys.

https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2018/06/25/lawsuit-over-immigrants-detained-in-victorville-prison-comes-to-la-court/