Immigration and Customs Enforcement argued that it no longer has to grant on-demand visits to its facilities to Democratic members of Congress due to resource constraints resulting from the government shutdown.

Since President Donald Trump retook office and increasingly emboldened ICE , the agency has wrestled with Democratic members of Congress over access to its facilities. ICE lawyers argued that it now doesn’t have the capability to give Democrats access due to the shutdown, court documents showed .

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