DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- After months of denials, members of Congress gained access Monday to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Los Angeles where people in detention have reported lack of food, water and beds.

Representatives accused the facility of being 'sanitized' before they got there after finding it nearly empty.

"On this visit inside, two people were there right now. So when I said they invited us in when there was nobody there, right? So they knew what they were doing," said Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles.

California representatives have repeatedly tried to conduct oversight at the ICE facility known as B-18.

They reference a federal law that gives them oversight to show up at any immigration detention facility without an appointment.

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