WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Chris Murphy issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Tuesday sent letters (https://www.murphy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/murphy_letter_to_localities.pdf) to 21 local governments throughout the United States that are actively considering whether to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to buy residential warehouse properties in their communities for use as immigrant detention facilities. These warehouses are not designed to house human beings and individuals detained at these facilities would be subjected to unsanitary, inhumane, and unlawful living conditions. Noting the depraved human...