Confrontations are playing out nationwide as lawmakers conduct checks of facilities where thousands are being held
From New York to California, Democratic members of Congress have been repeatedly blocked from entering Ice detention facilities where thousands of noncitizens – many with no criminal convictions – are being held.
Democratic officials’ legislative checks – a legal right for members of Congress – have consistently confirmed reports that immigrant detainees are being kept in “filthy” and “inhumane” conditions with little regard for due process. Now, the facilities have become a battleground in the intensifying standoff between the Trump administration and Democratic lawmakers over the president’s supercharged immigration agenda.
The goal is not to bully you, the goal is to commit human rights violations unchecked.
Yeah but now they can capitulate to the “bullying” and let the GOP do whatever as usual.
Well maybe someone will issue a strongly worded press release.
Yeah wtf. They are NOT the fucking victims here ffs. They have been complicit in Trumps bullshit for years and just recently decided to change their minds because the money stopped flowing.