CHICAGO (WLS) — There were new calls Tuesday to shut down the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Broadview facility.

Protesters said the building has no beds or showers, and is designed to hold detainees for no more than 12 hours.

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The protesters are calling on the county and state to shut down ICE’s Broadview facility. It’s not officially categorized as a detention center, and is said to be increasingly housing people for longer than even ICE’s own standards.

Marching into the Loop’s Cook County Administration Building, a group of protesters Tuesday tried and failed to hand deliver a letter addressed to Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul. They are calling on the lawmakers to use existing state law to shut down the immigration processing facility in Broadview.

“ICE is holding people captive for much longer than even their own stated purposes,” said Omar Flores, with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

For years, ICE’s Broadview facility has been used as a booking facility, where those taken into custody are processed before being taken to an official detention center. In the past, detainees rarely spent more than a day there. But, according to those gathered in Daley Plaza Tuesday, under the Trump administration, that’s changed, forcing people to live in what they say are inhumane conditions.

“They don’t have showers. They don’t have beds. They don’t have kitchen facilities. It’s not. It’s meant to be a processing center. That is really all it is. It’s not meant to hold people for longer than 12 hours,” immigration attorney Louise Carhart said.

Protesters want elected officials to use the Illinois Way Forward Act, which already forbids county and state facilities from housing ICE detainees, to shut down the Broadview facility, which, in their view, has become a de facto detention center.

“It’s overflowed. They’re not able to take people out within the times they are supposed to,” said Brandon Lee, with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

A spokesperson for ICE said, “Any accusations that detainees are treated inhumanely in any way are categorically false…There are occasions where detainees might need to stay at the Broadview office longer than the anticipated administrative processing time. While these instances are a rarity, detainees in such situations are given ample food, regular access to phones, showers and legal representation as well as medical care when needed.”

The Cook County state’s attorney said the office has no jurisdiction over the legality of the Broadview ICE facility.