Family members and lawyers of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the agency's office in Burlington, Massachusetts, say their clients have been held for days in overcrowded holding cells with inadequate and unclean drinking water, little food and no opportunity to bathe.
One man, Nexan Aroldo Asencio, has even been forced to sleep on the wet, foul-smelling floor of the bathroom, according to his wife.
"He said, 'It’s horrible here in Burlington: I'm sleeping on the bathroom floor. It smells like piss. It smells like poop,'" Christina Maria Toledo, Aroldo Ascencio's wife, told USA TODAY.
"'Everyone's coming in and out. It’s so packed. The only thing they gave me crackers and water that was dirty,'" she said her husband told her.
Derege Demissie, a lawyer who has represented several people who have been held in the facility, told USA TODAY the conditions are "untenable."
