A federal court has again ordered Homeland Security to restore Congressional access to ICE detention centers.
District Judge Jia Cobb granted a temporary restraining order that blocks a DHS policy requiring Congressional members to give seven days notice before visiting an ICE facility.
That policy was first laid out last summer and overturned when a federal judge found it violated a U.S. statute guaranteeing lawmakers the right to make unannounced visits to ICE facilities.
But DHS Secretary Kristi Noem signed a near-identical policy this year, after immigration officers shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis.
Though they are not part of the suit, Rep. Yassamin Ansari, Sen. Mark Kelly and other Arizona lawmakers have conducted oversight visits and called for reforms in the state’s detention centers.
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Thousands of refugees in the U.S. lost health coverage on Oct. 1 as new Medicaid eligibility rules took effect. In Arizona, unlike in most states, even children and pregnant women are being dropped. -
On Monday, dozens of agents swarmed a stretch of private land where the activists had been camped in and around a centuries-old cottonwood tree. Contractors tore down the tree and agents made multiple arrests. -
New research shows the ancient site is much older than previously thought. In fact, it’s now confirmed to be the oldest known scientifically dated geoglyph in the Americas, 2,000 years older than the first Pyramids built in Egypt. -
Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls. -
Ahmed Soliman has no ties to Equatorial Guinea. The 30-year-old man was born in Egypt and brought to the United States. when he was just 4 years old. He grew up in Phoenix. Now he’s believed to be in a hospital in the African nation.
