Staffers of the House Oversight Committee were allegedly told troubling accounts by migrant detainees, including toddlers forced to eat burritos and kids told to drink spilled soup off the floor.
The Department of Homeland Security has prevented congressional staffers from the House Oversight Committee from visiting additional migrant detention facilities along the southern border after allegedly making troubling discoveries in recent weeks at other detention centers, according to a letter sent to DHS Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan on Thursday.
Detainees at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, Cummings continued, allegedly told staffers there was rotten food and inadequate access to medical care, a"voluntary work program" that afforded migrants with less than $2 per day for household work and that some detainees had been held for more than one year.
"No detainees expressed to us any serious mistreatment — although some complained the facilities' air conditioning was too cold — and our staff observed no unsafe or unsanitary conditions," the Ohio lawmaker wrote, adding his belief that Cummings has"a history of releasing cherry-picked information that results in a misleading narrative."
While en route to 11 additional migrant detention centers in Texas on Monday, DHS informed the bipartisan group of committee staffers that they'd no longer be allowed to visit, according to Cummings, and that ICE instituted new restrictions going forward, such as prohibiting staff from local lawmakers' offices to accompany congressional committee staffers and two-hour time limits on visits.
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