A dozen democratic congressmen from the United States, including several leaders of the Hispanic Caucus, sued Wednesday before a federal court to the Donald Trump administration for denying them the right to access detention centers for migrants to prevent them from supervising the conditions under which the prisoners live.
“The obstruction of the Congress supervision is not only an affront to the Constitution, but a threat to our democracy,” said President of the Hispanic Caucus of Congress, Adriano Espaillat.
“From the first day we have witnessed the systematic efforts of the Trump administration to dehumanize immigrants, stop tens of thousands, including US citizens, and use federal agencies as a weapon to implement a mass deportation agenda based on cruelty and chaos,” he added.
He also denounced that the government has created “the perfect climate for abuse and impunity” by systematically limiting the powers of supervision.
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In accordance with US law, congressmen have the right to visit without a prior announcement the migrant detention centers. However, the plaintiffs assured that the Executive is putting obstacles to the access of the congressmen to those centers.
“Such flagrant contempt for law and constitutional order by the Trump administration merits a serious and decisive response,” said legislator Joe Neguse, another signer of the lawsuit.
American civil organizations, activists and politicians have denounced the inhuman conditions that prison migrants live in many of these centers, often in overcrowding conditions.
One of the facilities that has raised more criticism has been ‘Aligator Alcatraz’ inaugurated on July 1 in the state of Florida, with capacity for 3,000 migrants.
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Democratic politicians who visited it described as “cages” the place where migrants sleep, and warned of the poor state of the bathrooms, as well as the absence of a method that controls the temperature, in a moment of much heat and moisture in Florida.
Its lawsuit, presented to a court in the Columbia district, occurs at the same time that the Federal Disaster Management Agency (FEMA) of the United States has a process to distribute 608 million dollars in aid to state and local governments to build new detention centers for migrants or expand the capacity of already erected.
With EFE information.
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