A group of Virginia Democrats from both chambers is pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reinstall the federal workers who monitor the agency’s immigrant detention centers.

Long before it became an ICE detention center, the Miami Correctional Facility was constantly beset by violence fueled largely by gangs and drugs.

Some Democratic members from Los Angeles’ congressional delegation who toured an immigration detention center in downtown L.A. this week — two months after House members first attempted to check out ...