Shutdown flips ICE oversight fight as DHS moves to block surprise lawmaker visits
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DHS argues it can now ban unannounced congressional visits to immigration detention facilities after shutdown expired funding restrictions. Judge Jia Cobb twice blocked the requirement.
Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.
DHS first imposed a seven-day notice requirement for Congress members who wanted to visit Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities last summer, leading 13 House Democrats to sue.
The plaintiffs included Raskin, Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., and Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who argued that since 2019, Congress and the president have passed funding bills that allowed lawmakers to conduct "real-time oversight of the true conditions" of immigration facilities.
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