The ACLU has sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement over alleged inhumane conditions at Camp East Montana, a massive immigration detention tent camp at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso.

The lawsuit and motion for class certification were filed on behalf of four people detained at Camp East Montana and is the first lawsuit against the nation’s largest immigration detention center.

Some of the alleged violations listed in the May 29 lawsuit include:

Severe medical neglect and disease outbreaks, including a months-long measles outbreak that infected at least 14 people’

Violent uses of force by officers against detained immigrants and coercive threats of deportation;

Excessive use of solitary confinement to punish people for requesting basic needs like medical care or hygiene;

Inadequate and rancid food that have caused detained people to lose extreme amounts of weight;

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