Court halts Trump effort to ban unannounced congressional visits to ICE facilities

A federal court blocked the Trump administration on Monday from attempting to revive a requirement that members of Congress provide the federal government with seven days’ notice before they can visit an immigration detention facility.

A federal court struck down a similar policy late last year after finding that Section 527 of the Department of Homeland Security’s funding bill held that the agency could not place restrictions on congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. In a ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, found that a Jan. 8 memo from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, which attempted to reinstate the policy by saying it would be enforced instead with funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, still violated