Immigrants sue over treatment

Immigrants held in Border Patrol stations in southern Arizona are regularly denied basic sanitation, food, water and adequate medical care, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by immigrant rights organizations.

The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court on behalf of two unidentified women recently detained in the Tucson Border Patrol station and a Tucson man who has been detained multiple times there.

The plaintiffs want the court to require the Border Patrol in the Tucson sector to enforce policies regarding the treatment of detainees, end overcrowding in holding cells and improve the conditions there.