US EditionDHS Places New Limits on Lawmakers Visiting ICE Facilities
- The Department of Homeland Security imposed new restrictions this month on congressional visits to ICE immigration detention facilities across several states amid clashes and arrests.
- The changes follow multiple incidents where Democratic lawmakers, including representatives from New York and Illinois, were denied entry or arrested during oversight attempts.
- The revised DHS protocol gives ICE exclusive and final authority to refuse, cancel, or end visits under five specified circumstances, despite assertions that ICE Field Offices do not qualify as detention facilities under the law.
- Representative Jerrold Nadler condemned the situation as intolerable and affirmed their determination to continue pressing the issue, while other lawmakers reported that migrants were made to sleep on floors and were denied access to legal counsel.
- These developments suggest increasing tension between Congress and DHS on immigrant oversight, raising legal and human rights concerns about transparency and treatment of detainees.
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Southern California lawmakers say new ICE limits on Congressional visits to facilities ‘undermining the law’
The Department of Homeland Security has imposed new limits on visits by members of Congress and their staff to immigration enforcement facilities, intensifying a conflict between federal immigration officials and Democratic lawmakers. In guidance released this month, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement asserts that it has broad power to “deny a request or otherwise cancel, reschedule or terminate a tour or visit” by lawmakers or their staff und…
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union-bulletin.comDHS keeps denying access to members of Congress attempting oversight. Experts say it's illegal
Members from California, Illinois and New Jersey have been denied access in recent weeks to immigrant detention facilities in their states. Oversight experts say that's a substantial departure from past practice.
ICE asks lawmakers to request visits 72 hours in advance
A memo released this month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement asks lawmakers to request visits to immigration field offices at least 72 hours in advance. The guidance comes as several Democrats have recently denounced the federal agency for denying them access to ICE facilities, where illegal immigrants are being held. In the new memo, ICE says it retains the power to “deny a request or otherwise cancel, reschedule or terminate a tour or vis…
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