On February 19, an Arizona judge ruled in favor of migrants who alleged that some state border facilities are holding immigrants “in extremely cold, overcrowded, unsanitary and inhumane conditions,” Time reports.
U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bury ordered the Tucson sector of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to provide improved conditions for detained migrants. The order, which made permanent the judge’s 2016 preliminary injunction against the Tucson Sector, requires the agency to offer “clean mats and thin blankets to migrants held for longer than 12 hours and to allow them to clean themselves,” Time reports.