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Senator Calls for Closing Troubled ICE Detention Facility in New Mexico
New Mexico's senior US senator is once again calling for the closure of one of his state's most notorious immigration detention facilities, citing a recent tour he said confirmed that conditions there had deteriorated.
Democrat Martin Heinrich said his staff visited the Torrance County Detention Facility in late May, two weeks after Bloomberg published a story that detailed a series of problems at the facility, which primarily detains people on behalf of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 'It is clear that conditions at TCDF have not improved and remain inadequate and inappropriate for detention purposes,' Heinrich wrote in a letter to ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons on Thursday.
