Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said Wednesday that they were denied access to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office inside a New York immigration court building, where New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested the day before.
Goldman and Nadler spoke of their denied oversight visit, for which they gave “advance notice.”
“Even though we are allowed to show up unannounced by statute, and we must be allowed in, we gave advance notice that we would be coming this morning, and they still denied our access,” Goldman said Wednesday morning after visiting the 26 Federal Plaza building.
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“They said this is not a ‘detention facility,’ even though the statute very clearly says that we are allowed into any facility that is
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