LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford announced a visit to the Nevada Southern Detention Center on Tuesday, three weeks after he said officials initially denied him entry to the facility.

In a release from Horsford’s office, the congressman said he conducted congressional oversight at the Nevada Southern Detention Center on Tuesday, three weeks after he said he was denied entry to the facility.

Horsford said he spoke with nine detainees, calling his findings “deeply disturbing.”

“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 advance notice or understanding of where they were going,” Horsford said in the release.

In July, when Horsford was

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