Congress is legally required to inspect immigration detention centers — a fact that a federal court affirmed just last month — but members were denied access to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Minnesota.
This week, more than a dozen members of Congress returned to court to demand urgent actions restoring their right and duty to conduct oversight of ICE detention facilities. We are representing them in their lawsuit, along with Democracy Forward. We asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order stopping DHS and ICE from obstructing congressional access to immigration detention centers.
The number of individuals in ICE’s custody hit a record high this month. Last year, 32 people died in immigration detention. Oversight of these centers is crucial to stop the administration from hurting or killing more people, which is why we’re fighting for Congress’s ability to conduct real-time inspections of immigration detention centers.
