Legal Organizations Fight New ICE Policy Blocking Meetings with Detainees

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Publish Date:
March 26, 2020
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ACLU of Southern California
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The policy requires attorneys wear protective gear that even hospital workers can’t obtain

LOS ANGELES — Immigrants in detention centers have a long-established legal right to meet with attorneys, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center have issued a new policy that essentially bans those visits.

The action was filed in court by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, the Immigrants Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School, and the law firm Sidley Austin LLP.

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