A woman noticed a lump on her breast while she was being held at Michigan’s largest immigration detention facility. She asked for a mammogram seven times, her lawyer said, but never got one during her six-month detention. Another woman detained at the facility claims she banged on her cell door, trying to get her blood pressure medication as she became dizzy, felt pain in her legs and collapsed, according to a lawyer. She was ignored for nearly three hours before being rushed to the hospital when her blood pressure hit a critical level. Their stories were detailed in a complaint sent to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that alleges North Lake Processing Center, an 1,800-bed immigration detention facility in Baldwin, is not providing adequate medical care and restricts legal access. Neither woman was identified in the complaint due to a fear of retaliation. The ACLU of Michigan and the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center sent the May 13 letter urging the federal agency to address the “most frequent and concerning failures” at the facility. “Many of our clients have experienced grave failures of ICE’s duty to provide medical care and meet the health service needs of the individuals in their care,” said Ruby Robinson, a Michigan Immigrant Rights Center attorney, during a Thursday press briefing. “We are also concerned about the arbitrary barriers as attorneys encounter when they are trying to visit their clients at North Lake.”The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Related: In rural Michigan, a prison is reopening as biggest ICE detention hub in MidwestThe complaint was sent nearly a year after North Lake, a former prison owed by the for-profit GEO Group, opened under President Donald Trump’s effort to detain and deport millions of people. Since then, North Lake has called 911 dozens of times for medical emergencies. One man died at the facility. Detainees launched a hunger strike last month to protest conditions and prolonged detentions.“This administration’s mass deportation machine is putting lives at great risk and ripping apart communities,” said Ewurama Appiagyei-Dankah, legal fellow with the ACLU of Michigan. “People detained at North Lake are experiencing serious threats to their health and horrific emotional distress.” Dr. Marc Stern, an expert on health care at correctional facilities, said a review of medical records from two detainees indicates “problems that endanger the safety and lives” of people being held at North Lake. He also alleged nurses at ICE facilities are acting beyond the scope of their license by diagnosing patients. In two cases, the diagnoses were “the patient is sick.” “Based on the allegations and especially on the things that I saw, directly of grave concerns about safety, ICE needs to investigate,” Stern said. Related: 911 calls document health emergencies, suicide attempts at Michigan’s largest ICE detention centerDuring Thursday’s press briefing, a woman named Heydi also described how her son has been bounced around detention facilities, including North Lake, for the past nine months. She has tracked him through ICE’s Online Detainee Locator and sent more than a dozen emails “begging for information.” Heydi says he’s lost weight, stopped speaking and his mental health has suffered as he now faces deportation to Honduras. “Treating him as if he were not a human being,” she said, speaking through interpreter Elizabeth Dannenfelser. “A country of laws, but this system has dehumanized him, humiliated him and taken him away from his mother and family.” North Lake has been under scrutiny since a man died there in December. A medical examiner determined Nenko Gantchev, a 56-year-old Bulgarian man from Chicago, died of natural causes, but his family questions whether he got adequate care while in detention. Gantchev is among more than 40 people who have died in ICE custody under the Trump administration. Deaths have continued to mount as the number of people in detention has swelled, hitting a record high of 73,000 earlier this year. North Lake currently has 1,410 detainees. Related:As ICE arrests keep climbing in Michigan, most are not criminalsDemocratic U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Hillary Scholten and Haley Stevens have all conducted oversight visits of the facility. One Chaldean man was reportedly deported days after describing inhumane conditions to Scholten and Stevens in February.Lawmakers have also been pushing for an investigation after detainees launched the hunger strike. ICE has previously denied claims of medical neglect saying facilities are bound by mandatory national detention standards that “prioritize safety, medical care, and detainee rights.” The agency says it provides medical, mental and dental care, calling it “the best healthcare many aliens have received in their entire lives.”The complaint also alleges that ICE is impeding detainees’ access to lawyers with “inconsistent policies.” That includes reports that attorneys are required to exit and re-enter security after each client, which can take between 15 and 30 minutes. They are limited to one-hour visits per client each day. And legal counsel has been turned away for an “arbitrary dress code,” including one attorney who was forced to buy “emergency pants” from a nearby store to see a client. Appiagyei-Dankah was also told earlier this year to remove her bra because of its underwire. Some immigrant detainees have not gotten notices about their court dates, according to Robinson, and Michigan Immigrant Rights Center staff have observed hearings where North Lake detainees were not in attendance when a judge called their case. He said one client was “ordered removed in absentia,” meaning they faced deportation because they were in ICE custody and missed the hearing. “The whole purpose of detention is supposedly to ensure people show up for their hearings,” Robinson said. The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center and the ACLU of Michigan are now urging the ICE Detroit Field Office to exercise its oversight authority to ensure North Lake is complying with federal detention standards and constitutional requirements. The legal groups requested a response to their letter by May 29.Undercover federal agent attended ICE resistance event in Ann Arbor, court records show Michigan immigrant faces $579,838 fine under Trump push for self-deportationMan who was deported 7 times sentenced for attacking ICE officer in Grand Rapids