A congressman from Las Vegas said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement inmates held in a Southern Nevada detention center alleged to him in an oversight visit this week that they were denied proper legal representation and timely health care treatment.

“I spoke with nine detainees today, and what they shared with me is deeply concerning,” said Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nevada, in a news release about his Tuesday visit to the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump. “Medical treatment can take weeks; detainees do not have reliable access to immigration attorneys or resources; and many have been moved across state lines in the dead of night without advanced notice or understanding of where they were going.”

Horsford’s oversight inspection took place nearly three weeks after the insti

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