Lawmakers seek answers in detainee death at ICE facility in Baldwin

U.S. Reps. Haley Stevens and Hillary Scholten toured the ICE detention center in Baldwin and said they are seeking more transparency after the death of a detainee at the facility.

“Unfortunately, the outreach that Congresswoman Scholten and I made to our Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem went unanswered, around the death of Mr. Gantchev,” Stevens said.

Stevens and Scholten said they decided to visit in person after receiving no response to their message to Noem. They said they were given a tour as if they were coming in as a detainee, and said it was a planned visit that made it difficult to assess what day-to-day conditions are like.

Stevens and Scholten said they are calling for an overhaul of how ICE conducts its operations, and Stevens said she supports impeaching Noem.

“Secretary Noem, for her actions at DHS, I, along with over 150 of my colleagues, believe that she is unfit for her role, that she has failed the American public. The mismanagement that we are seeing of ICE begins with her,” Stevens said.