The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court Highlight

There is ample evidence of immigrants being detained at 26 Federal Plaza. In September, a federal judge Lewis Kaplan issued an order limiting the number of people that could be held at the building. In his opinion, Kaplan cited brutal conditions that were described in over a dozen affidavits and captured in videos showing people packed in cramped rooms and laying on thin blankets placed on the floor.