Attorneys are alleging abusive and racist treatment of detainees at an immigration detention center at the Orange County Correctional Facility in the Hudson Valley, where some undocumented immigrants from New York City were moved in recent months after detention facilities closed in New Jersey.

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“I’ve been raising concerns regularly about this particular situation for months, and it doesn’t seem to have been improving,” said L.G.C.’s attorney Molly Lauterback, of Brooklyn Defender Services. “I’ve called the jail to report my concerns about his self-injurious behavior and I was told I was wasting their mental health resources and he was lying to me, which was patently untrue given what I observed with my own eyes.”

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