Keepers of concentration camps prefer secrecy because they do not want public scrutiny of their heinous acts.
The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly barred members of congress, as well as Ras Baraka, Mayor of Newark, from visiting ICE facilities in their districts. Most recently, three Minnesota lawmakers were barred from touring the increasingly notorious Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where all signs point to deprivation of food and medical attention as well as overcrowded conditions.
On Monday, a federal judge ruled such denial of access illegal. While longstanding federal policy requires DHS to allow the unfettered scrutiny by congress members to ICE facilities , Kristi Noem has insisted that the massive infusion of federal funds to DHS somehow allows the agency to forbid such access. But now Democratic lawmakers have no excuse not to give these gulags the exposure they have long needed.