U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a Pittsburgh-area Democrat, on Monday became the latest Congressional Democrat denied entry at a federal immigration detention center.

Lee on Monday was denied access to Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the largest immigration detention center in the northeast. She had traveled to the Clearfield County detention center along with a human rights attorney to ascertain the living conditions of the 2,000 or so individuals being detained by ICE at the former prison.

During a virtual press conference, Lee, along with Yannick Gill, a senior counsel with Refugee Advocacy, Human Rights First, decried the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for denying a member of Congress their full and legal oversight duties over a federal immigra

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