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Rachel Leingang

Arizona Democrat challenges Trump after denied entry to Ice facility: ‘We can’t look the other way’

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Representative Greg Stanton called out the Trump administration after he was denied access to the Eloy detention center in Arizona. Composite: CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images, EPA

An Arizona congressman says the US government violated federal law when it refused to allow him to visit a local restaurant owner held in an immigration detention facility last week.

Greg Stanton, who represents Arizona’s fourth congressional district, is the latest in a series of Democrats who have been denied entry into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facilities, despite members of Congress’s legal right to conduct oversight without notice at places that detain migrants.

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