DHS plays games to avoid legally permitted inspections of overloaded immigration detention centers - Jen Psaki - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

ICE detention centers were already operating beyond the capacity for which they'd been funded before Donald Trump's new deportation frenzy began, which means conditions in these centers are likely strained. Members of Congress are legally allowed to perform inspections of these facilities to check on those conditions. But now members of Congress are getting the runaround and not allowed the access to which they have a right. - Aired on 06/19/2025.

[markodochartaigh]

1. The supremacist court has said that Trump, personally,

can do whatever he wants without prosecution. But that imperial privilege only applies to him. The directors of the ICE facilities which are not in compliance with the law need to be sued.

[2naSalit]

2. If I could only...

Say what I'm thinking.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. The law is clear that these rules are illegal

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[Bayard]

5. Thanks for this

[young_at_heart]

4. Watching this made me physically ill.....what country is this?

Please someone, tell me how on earth such barbarism is condoned in the United States? This is not the country I have known for 85 years!!!

[Bayard]

6. Would it be legal for members of Congress to take bodyguards with them?

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Several have already hired protection, I remember Eric Swalwell talking about it when he received death threats

[Bayard]

9. But, could they take them on these inspections?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Ranking Member Bennie G Thompson slams Kristi Noem's illegal move to block Congressional oversight of ICE facilities.

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