A Los Angeles federal judge has just ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials must allow for detainees to have private calls with lawyers at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
According to Judge Jesus G. Bernal, the facility “must allow free, reasonably private legal calls on unrecorded and unmonitored telephone lines, and must devise a reliable procedure for attorneys as well as detainees to schedule those calls within 24 hours of a request.
The ruling comes as officials argue that changes in policy due to the health crisis led it to be near impossible for detainees to confer with their lawyers in private.
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