ACLU warns permitting bill could give way to ICE detention centers - Live Updates
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The civil liberties group cautions the bill as written could cement the Trump administration’s “anti-immigration efforts.”
The civil liberties group cautions the bill as written could cement the Trump administration’s “anti-immigration efforts.”
The American Civil Liberties Union is making the rounds on Capitol Hill warning that the Senate’s big bipartisan permitting bill could lead to the expansion of ICE detention centers — citing a separate GOP effort that poured tens of millions of dollars into building more of these facilities nationwide.
In a memo obtained by POLITICO, the ACLU argues the bill, as written, would allow ICE to move ahead with “massive, irreversible projects” with “no meaningful legal recourse,” and cement the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant efforts for years to come.
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