Jonathan Blitzer
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first heard Jul 2026
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And in fact, a federal judge in the lawsuit I just mentioned, a federal judge sided with the plaintiffs, with these Democratic lawmakers saying, no, the government has to allow members of Congress who, of course, are in charge of appropriating money for exactly these detention centers to visit said detention centers and
have a look at the conditions.
So in the case of Congresswoman Escobar, it's particularly interesting because she gets wind of the fact in early August that there are people being held at this facility.
And she contacts ICE and requests a site visit and, you know, is denied, but is specifically written an email, I believe it was August 8th,
in which ICE says, this facility hasn't opened yet.
It's not open for business yet, and so therefore you can't come.
The official open date is August 17th.
Now, we now know that at the time that ICE sent that email to her, there were already 15 people being held at Camp East Montana.
And when I spoke to an administration official about this, the official said to me,
Yeah.
As far as we all knew, the date that this facility was supposed to open was August 17th.
And then ICE just brought people there early.
Yeah.
Ray and I met in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, right across the border from El Paso.
And, you know, the first thing I want to say is the reason he agreed to be removed was because they continually denied him his diabetes medication.
And he actually feared for his life.
Yeah.
He said to me, you know, look, I could survive a couple of weeks without my meds.
But I'm not seeing any indication that this is changing.
I'm meeting people in my unit who've been here for months on end.
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