DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

Twelve House Democrats sue Trump administration for blocking detention facility oversight

| Importance: 9/10

Twelve Democratic members of Congress filed suit in federal court after being systematically denied access to ICE detention facilities nationwide. The lawsuit challenges DHS’s new policy requiring seven-day advance notice for visits and blocking all access to ICE field offices, which violates …

Rep. Joe Neguse (CO) Rep. Jason Crow (CO) Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY) Rep. Dan Goldman (NY) Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS) +9 more congressional-oversight ice-detention rule-of-law constitutional-crisis transparency-failure
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Senator Alex Padilla Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed by FBI

| Importance: 5/10

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference at Los Angeles FBI headquarters on June 12, 2025. After interjecting with a question six minutes into Noem’s remarks about immigration protests, uniformed FBI police forced him to his …

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) DHS Secretary Kristi Noem FBI police officers U.S. Secret Service Gen. Gregory Michael Guillot (NORTHCOM) congressional-member federal-detention immigration-enforcement political-suppression senator
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