Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit on April 24 against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seeking to overturn a decision to create a proposed detention facility for up to 1,500 undocumented immigrants in Surprise.
The lawsuit claims DHS and ICE failed to complete required environmental reviews and did not provide public notice, violating state and federal laws.
“The Trump administration has run roughshod over federal law in its rush to expand detention capacity across the country,” Mayes said in a statement announcing the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court of Arizona….