A Marine Corps veteran’s wife has been released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention following advocacy from Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican who backs President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown.

Rep. Greg Stanton was denied access to the Eloy Detention Center, despite a new law that lets lawmakers make unannounced visits.

Arizona’s first private prison is again owned by the company that built it in the mid-1990s and then sold it to the state in 2013 for $150,000.

The Town of Marana said the former prison may be used as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

The Trump administration accelerated efforts to build a network of massive ICE detention camps across the U.S. this week, even as lawmakers and human rights advocates detailed allegations of shocking conditions at overcrowded immigration jails in Florida.

Fort Bliss Army Base in El Paso will be housing a 5,000-bed detention facility to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation efforts. The Department of Defense announced that it had awarded nearly $232 million to Virginia-based Acquisition Logistics LLC “to establish and operate a 5,

Korean American scientist and longtime US legal permanent resident Tae Heung Kim was detained by ICE on July 21 and has been denied both access to his attorney and communication with his family without explanation.

Fernando Rocha, who works at Juanita High School in Kirkland, was detained by ICE this month. He spent nearly two weeks at the detention center in Tacoma.

Arizona’s first private prison is now back in the hands of the company that built it in the mid-1990s near Marana. The state sold the facility to Utah-based Management & Training Corp. for $15 million. The company had sold it to the state in 2013 for $150,000.