The complaint alleges the illegal obstruction of lawmakers’ oversight duties, but an official says legislators “could have just scheduled a tour.”

Twelve Democratic members of Congress sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, accusing immigration officials of blocking their access to detention facilities housing noncitizens.

Hesperia, praised conditions at the immigration detention facility, Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, and Torres, D-Ontario, denounced what they said were unlawful actions by U.S.