"Local News The ICE Boston Field Office is an office building now doubling as a detention center with multiple allegations of poor conditions. Three people who were trying to deliver supplies to federal immigration detainees were arrested outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Burlington Friday, police said. Nathan Phillips, of Newton, Natasia Lawton-Sticklor, of Leominster, and Eleanor Reid, of Hanover, New Hampshire are all facing one misdemeanor charge of trespassing."
"Police reported to the ICE Boston Field Office Friday around 11 a.m. after ICE agents reported protesters who were refusing to leave the front steps, according to court documents and the Burlington police. The individuals - later identified as Phillips, 58, Lawton-Sticklor, 42, and Reid, 33 - "were trying to deliver food to the detainees that are in the facility," according to a police report filed in Woburn District Court."
"Since the administrative office has been doubling as a detention center, the town is attempting to gain access to inspect the building's conditions, Burlington officials said in an update Friday. Lawyers, including representing a teen from Milford who was detained for nearly a week at the Burlington office, have called the facility inhospitable and overcrowded, with detainees sleeping on concrete floors. State officials have called out the "abysmal" conditions."
Three people attempting to deliver supplies to federal immigration detainees were arrested outside the ICE Boston Field Office in Burlington and charged with misdemeanor trespassing. They refused to move from the front steps after being told the office could not accept outside food. The Boston Field Office occupies an office building near Burlington Mall that has been used as a temporary detention center. Town officials are seeking access to inspect the building's conditions. Lawyers and state officials describe the facility as inhospitable, overcrowded, and "abysmal," with reports of detainees sleeping on concrete floors. Activists attempted to deliver food and care packages and expressed concerns about basic necessities.
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