Saturday, December 27, 2025

Judge lifts Trump limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails

A federal judge ruled that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities.

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... A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempts to limit members of Congress from visiting detention facilities operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb ruled Wednesday that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities and entirely barring congressional visits to field offices being used to detain immigrants.

Those policies, adopted in June, appear to violate explicit language in federal funding laws -- adopted annually since 2020 -- that prohibit ICE from restricting lawmakers' access to its facilities, Cobb concluded. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-27 09:22 PM

So, now Congress can inspect ICE detention facilities without prior notice, to see the actual conditions experienced by the detainees in those facilities?

And not "conditions" that the Trump admin seems to acknowledge it needs taken seven days to create?

This is A Good Thing.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-27 09:26 PM

Fuck Pedo Donnie

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-27 10:24 PM

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