After court ruling, Democratic lawmakers carry out congressional oversight at ICE facility in Los Angeles

"U.S. Representatives Norma Torres and Jimmy Gomez conducted a congressional oversight inspection of the ICE facility in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday amid reports of an undisclosed holding area for immigrant families. The visits comes three days after a federal court judge granted the lawmakers and others a temporary restraining order, blocking the Trump administration and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from enforcing a policy requiring members of Congress to provide a week's notice before visiting immigration detention facilities."

"Torres (D-Pomona) and Gomez (D-Los Angeles) and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit last year challenging the DHS policy. They won the lawsuit in December but are challenging it once more after Noem "secretly reimposed" the seven-day-notice requirement. Congress has stipulated in yearly appropriations packages since 2020 that federal funds may not be used to prevent a member of Congress "from entering, for the purpose of conducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens.""

U.S. Representatives Norma Torres and Jimmy Gomez inspected the ICE detention facility in downtown Los Angeles amid reports of an undisclosed holding area for immigrant families. The visit followed a federal court's temporary restraining order blocking a DHS policy that required members of Congress to give seven days' notice before visiting immigration detention facilities. Torres, Gomez, and other plaintiffs had sued DHS and won in December, then challenged the policy again after Secretary Kristi Noem allegedly reinstated the rule. Congressional appropriations since 2020 prohibit using federal funds to bar members from entering DHS detention facilities for oversight, and a 14-day order allowed Gomez access to observe conditions.

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