Story from yesterday on testimony heard in the case, including Trump’s top blitz enforcer saying the use of force has been “more than exemplary” and two women stopped at gun point by federal agents.

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Vcelka is telling a few stories about clients. Among them the story of a nursing mother who was detained in Wisconsin, brought to Broadview and was unable to reached until she was in Mexico.

Calls with clients, if she reaches them while they're in Broadview, last about five minutes, Vcelka says. "It’s very difficult for me to hear my client, there’s a lot of background voices," she says, "and you can tell it's not on a recorded line."

Attorney Shelby Vcelka says, "I have had extremely limited communications with my clients while they're in Broadview, if I happen to speak with them it’s through happenstance, if their family members happens to be in my office when they call."

When she reached an attorney in the U.S., she learned she had actually agreed to leave the country for 10 years.

Back in Honduras, she contacted who she thought was a lawyer who asked for money to secure her a "pardon." After giving the so-called attorney hundreds of dollars, she realized it was a scam.

Ultimately she signed papers on the belief that they wouldn't let her out of the ICE facility otherwise. The officer told her that the papers meant she would have to stay out of the U.S. for five years.

She says she wanted to speak with a lawyer because "I didn't want to come here... I didn't want to leave my children behind."

The woman is also beginning to cry as she talks about her deportation. In the ICE facility she says she asked to speak with an attorney was told, "what for" and there was nothing she could do.

Meals, she says, consisted of small frozen Subway sandwiches, often with just peppers and lettuce, accompanied by a small bottle of water. People asking for more water were told to wait for the next meal.

On asking facility officials for cleaning products, she says, "We would ask them to give us something — having been there for so many days we just couldn't put up with the smell anymore — but they said they didn't have anything."

"They didn’t give us anything that had to do with cleaning, absolutely nothing," she says.

Her and other detainees once asked for a broom to sweep but were told no. At one point they used trash bags to unclog the toilet. There were no showers, she says.

She says she spent five days at the ICE facility outside Chicago. Inside the cell, she says, "there was no cleaning, they never cleaned the bathroom."