Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to stop the buildout of an immigration detention facility in the city of Surprise.
Mayes accused the Trump administration of running “roughshod over federal law in its rush to expand detention capacity across the country.”
“We will do everything in our power to demand accountability from the federal government and to protect the health and safety of this community," she said.
Mayes alleged the federal government had neither conducted nor made public environmental reviews before deciding to convert the Phoenix area warehouse into a detention center, as required by the National Environmental Policy Act.
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