Squalid Conditions at ICE's Manhattan Facility
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lear Show. I'm producer Amina Serna, filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:15.4 | In lower Manhattan, behind closed doors on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, |
| 0:23.6 | immigrants in ICE custody have been sleeping on the floor. Some go days without showers or clean clothes. |
| 0:26.6 | Many say they can't get enough food, water, or even basic hygiene. |
| 0:31.6 | They've been denied visits and private calls with their attorneys. |
| 0:34.6 | Last month, the city published a video taken by someone inside. |
| 0:39.4 | People packed shoulder to shoulder lying on the floor under thin aluminum blankets, |
| 0:45.2 | inches from exposed toilets behind a waist-high wall. |
| 0:49.5 | It's a space I says is meant for short processing stops of under 12 hours, but records show people are |
| 0:55.7 | held there for days at a time. |
| 0:58.3 | Now weeks after complaints and a lawsuit from immigrants' rights groups, a federal judge |
| 1:03.3 | has ordered the Trump administration to make changes, from limiting crowding to guaranteeing |
| 1:08.0 | three meals a day. |
| 1:09.7 | The order lasts through August 26th, but the judge's |
| 1:13.1 | questions in court suggest doubts about whether ICE will comply and about why the public, |
| 1:18.3 | including members of Congress, have been kept from seeing inside. Gwen Hogan, senior reporter |
| 1:24.2 | at the city and former WMIC and and Gothamist reporter is on this story. |
| 1:29.3 | And she'll join us now to share some of her reporting on it. |
| 1:32.0 | Hi, Gwen. |
| 1:32.5 | Welcome back to WN. |
| 1:33.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:35.4 | Listeners, we can take your calls on the conditions at ICE's Manhattan facility. |
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