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Lawmakers Challenge ICE Inspection Rules After ‘Sanitized’ Detention Visits

Suing to overturn a seven-day notice rule, lawmakers and advocacy groups are seeking court orders to force the agency to meet basic detention standards.

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FILE - Members of the NYPD Strategic Response Group enter 26 Federal Plaza, where immigration court is located, June 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa, File)
Federal officers wearing face coverings wait in a hallway outside of a courtroom at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York.
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, left, leaves the GEO Group-operated ICE detention center in Aurora after conducting an oversight visit with other members of Colorado’s Democratic House delegation on Aug. 11, 2025. He was joined by U.S. Reps. Brittany Pettersen, Diana DeGette and Joe Neguse. The visit follows an announcement that Crow and Neguse are suing the Trump administration after Crow previously was denied access for an unannounced visit. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Overview

  • A group of Democratic representatives has sued the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the seven-day advance-notice policy and restore unannounced oversight of ICE processing and holding sites.
  • Congressional delegations inspecting facilities in Aurora, Manhattan and Los Angeles on August 11–12 found sites emptied, locked down or heavily sanitized, limiting any assessment of normal conditions.
  • Make the Road New York, the ACLU and NYCLU have filed for emergency injunctions at 26 Federal Plaza, demanding compliance with ICE’s own standards for space, bedding, meals, hygiene and medical care.
  • Federal judges William J. Martinez and Lewis A. Kaplan have described conditions at Aurora as “abhorrent,” ordering a bond hearing and weighing temporary relief and oversight motions in related litigation.
  • DHS and ICE maintain that disputed locations are short-term processing centers, categorically denying allegations of overcrowding or substandard treatment.