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ICE Limits Congressional Visits as Democrats Pressure Agency
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 under a number of circumstances, including “operational concerns” or if “facility management or other ICE officials deem it appropriate to do so.”
Under existing law, members of Congress can make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.” But the new policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to those requirements. Detained immigrants have been held in some of those offices for days waiting for officials to process their cases.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/19/us/trump-news#ice-congress
Agencies of the government can unilaterally violate the law when they see fit? Dem visits to ICE detention facilities have become uncomfortable for Homan, ect., so they are claiming the right to deny them. Perhaps the regime has decided to skip over the part when they violate court orders because so many have gone against it and are proactively re-writing the law on their own.
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 under a number of circumstances, including “operational concerns” or if “facility management or other ICE officials deem it appropriate to do so.”
Under existing law, members of Congress can make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.” But the new policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to those requirements. Detained immigrants have been held in some of those offices for days waiting for officials to process their cases.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/19/us/trump-news#ice-congress
Agencies of the government can unilaterally violate the law when they see fit? Dem visits to ICE detention facilities have become uncomfortable for Homan, ect., so they are claiming the right to deny them. Perhaps the regime has decided to skip over the part when they violate court orders because so many have gone against it and are proactively re-writing the law on their own.

