Filed Date: May 29, 2026
Case Ongoing
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On May 29, 2026, four immigration detainees on behalf of themselves and all persons detained at the ERO El Paso Camp East Montana Detention Facility ("Camp East Montana") brought this class action lawsuit in the Western District of Texas. Plaintiffs sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), the U.S. Department of War ("DOW"), and their respective senior officials, including ICE Acting Director, DHS Secretary, and Secretary of War. Plaintiffs alleged that Camp East Montana — erected in August 2025 on Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas, with the largest capacity of any immigration detention center in the country — subjected civil immigration detainees, approximately 80% of whom had no criminal background, to conditions more punitive than many state prisons. Alleged conditions included physical and sexual abuse by guards, at least three in-custody deaths, coerced deportations, arbitrary solitary confinement, disease outbreaks, inadequate food and medical care, unsanitary living conditions, hazardous dust exposure, mental health neglect, and severely restricted access to counsel. Plaintiffs further alleged that Defendants were repeatedly placed on notice of these conditions through ICE's own inspections as well as Congressional oversight visits and letters from civil rights organizations, yet failed to remediate the identified deficiencies.
The complaint asserted three causes of action: violation of the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause for punitive conditions of confinement, violation of the Fifth Amendment for inadequate medical care, and arbitrary and capricious agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA") for operating the facility in violation of the governing National Detention Standards 2025. Plaintiffs sought class certification, declaratory relief, injunctive relief enjoining Defendants from denying medical care or subjecting class members to unconstitutional punishment, and attorneys' fees and costs.
The same day, Plaintiffs filed a motion for class certification, seeking to certify a class of “all persons who are now, or in the future will be, in the legal custody of ICE and detained at Camp East Montana.”
This case is ongoing.
Summary Authors
Madilynn O'Hara (6/1/2026)
For PACER's information on parties and their attorneys, see: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73417799/parties/angye-v-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice/
Kumar, Savannah (Texas)
See docket on RECAP: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73417799/angye-v-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice/
Last updated June 2, 2026, 3:05 a.m.
State / Territory:
Case Type(s):
Special Collection(s):
Trump Administration 2.0: Challenges to the Government
Key Dates
Filing Date: May 29, 2026
Case Ongoing: Yes
Plaintiffs
Plaintiff Description:
immigration detainees at the ERO El Paso Camp East Montana Detention Facility
Plaintiff Type(s):
Attorney Organizations:
Public Interest Lawyer: Yes
Filed Pro Se: No
Class Action Sought: Yes
Class Action Outcome: Pending
Defendants
Federal
Acting Director of ICE's El Paso Field Office, Enforcement and Removal Operations
Assistant Field Office Director of ICE's El Paso Field Office, Enforcement and Removal Operations
ICE Director
Secretary of U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Secretary of U.S. Department of War
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of War
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Case Details
Causes of Action:
Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 551 et seq.
Constitutional Clause(s):
Other Dockets:
Western District of Texas 3:26-cv-01515
Available Documents:
Outcome
Prevailing Party: None Yet / None
Relief Sought:
Relief Granted:
Source of Relief:
Issues
General/Misc.:
Access to lawyers or judicial system
Sanitation / living conditions
Immigration/Border:
Jails, Prisons, Detention Centers, and Other Institutions:
Assault/abuse by staff (facilities)
Sex w/ staff; sexual harassment by staff
Medical/Mental Health Care:
Case Summary of Angye v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Civil Rights Litig. Clearinghouse, https://clearinghouse.net/case/48191/ (last updated 6/1/2026).