Immigrant rights groups sue U.S. over fast-tracked deportations

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group of Central American women and children detained at an immigration facility in New Mexico filed a lawsuit Friday against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security alleging that it was violating their right to due process as it speeds up deportations.

A contingent of attorneys and national immigrant rights groups, including the National Immigration Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed the complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington on behalf of seven women and three children held at the Artesia Family Residential Center in Artesia, N.M.

The lawsuit is the latest criticism against the Artesia facility, which has been plagued with problems including unsanitary conditions, as federal officials have stepped up the pace of processing and deporting thousands of single parents with children who have illegally entered the U.S. through its southern border. Many of the immigrants are fleeing violent communities in Central America.

The suit claims U.S. immigration officials are restricting communication between detainees in Artesia and those on the outside, including their attorneys, coercing women and children to relinquish their rights and prejudging asylum cases regardless of individual merits.


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