Last summer, as federal agents were grabbing immigrants moments after they left their court hearings, officers crammed as many as 100 people at a time into a makeshift detention facility on the 10th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper.
After covertly recorded video footage showed detainees lying on cement floors with nothing but emergency blankets, steps away from a toilet separated only by a waist-high partition, a spokesperson for Homeland Security flatly denied any allegations of “overcrowding or subprime conditions” as “categorically false.”
