Judge allows Trump administration to block lawmakers’ access to ICE facilities

Judge rules homeland security can insist lawmakers provide week’s notice of intention to inspect facilities

The Trump administration won a legal victory on Monday that temporarily allows it to keep elected officials out of immigration detention camps, while it advanced two other court actions in support of its surge into Minnesota.

A federal judge in Washington DC ruled that the homeland security department (DHS) can continue to insist that lawmakers provide a week’s notice of their intention to inspect immigration facilities, even though she blocked an identical policy last month.