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Blocking Members of Congress from conducting oversight and accessing ICE facilities is sadly <br /> just the most recent episode in a string of increasingly flagrant abuses of power committed by <br /> this administration to quell and crush any attempt at raising questions, expressing disagreement, <br /> or conducting oversight, even as you violate the rights and freedoms of the people of the United <br /> States. You have targeted, manhandled, arrested, and deported U.S. citizens without due process. <br /> You have dismantled oversight offices, including the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties <br /> and the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, which protect Americans' rights and <br /> liberties, because you believed them to be "internal adversaries."' You have arrested <br /> democratically elected officials and electoral candidates. The Department of Justice is now <br /> threatening our colleague, Rep. LaMonica McIver, with seventeen years in federal prison for <br /> carrying out her constitutional oversight duties at an ICE detention facility. Fortunately, the <br /> Constitution and laws of the United States do not bend and submit to your will. <br /> We will continue to show up on behalf of the American people and our Constitution, and we will <br /> not be turned away. The American people are watching. Follow the law. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Bennie G. Thompson Mmie Raskin <br /> Member of Congress Ranking Member <br /> Ranking Member, Committee House Committee on the <br /> on Homeland Security Judiciary <br /> J. Luis Correa Pramila Jayapal <br /> Member of Congress Ranking Member <br /> Ranking Member, Immigration Integrity, <br /> Subcommittee on Border Security, and Enforcement <br /> Security and Enforcement House Judiciary Committee <br /> cc: Todd Lyons, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement <br /> 'ICE to Committee on Homeland Security Staff,e-mail,June 18,2025 (on record with the Committee on Homeland <br /> Security). <br /> 'Maria Sacchetti&Ellie Silverman DHS Shuts Down Internal Watchdog Agencies That Advocated for Immigrants, <br /> WASH. POST, Mar. 21, 2025, https://www.wasliingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/21/dhs-immigrant-advocates- <br /> watchdogs-oversight/. <br />