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A staffer for Rep. Veronica Escobar<\/a>, D-Texas, allegedly lied about being an attorney at least 11 times for detainees at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in an effort to meet with them and sneak in cell phones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons informed Escobar in a letter dated Thursday about Benito Torres, a senior caseworker on the congresswoman’s staff.<\/p>\n

Lyons said Torres lied about being a lawyer for detainees in ICE custody at the Camp East Montana facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FEDERAL JUDGE TEMPORARILY LIFTS DHS RESTRICTIONS ON LAWMAKER VISITS TO DETENTION FACILITIES<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The available evidence demonstrates your staffer, a senior caseworker named\u00a0Benito Torres, misrepresented himself as counsel for detainees\u00a0in ICE custody, violated clear detention standards\u00a0and security protocols prohibiting the use\u00a0of cellphones inside ICE facilities, improperly met with multiple detainees<\/a>, and\u00a0falsely claimed to ICE personnel such use had been approved by the agency,” Lyons\u00a0wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“As a result of bringing a cell phone into the Camp East Montana facility, contrary to facility visitation policy, Mr. Torres\u2019 misrepresentation that he is a licensed attorney to gain access to detainees, his improper meetings with groups of detainees, and his assertions to ICE personnel about the origins of his visit, Mr. Torres is herby prohibited from accessing any ICE facility.”<\/p>\n

An image of a sign-in log shows Torres allegedly claiming to be a “lawyer” visiting a “client.” ICE records show that Torres first misrepresented himself as a legal professional in September 2025, Lyons said. The most recent incident happened on Jan. 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DHS TORCHES ‘BAMBOOZLED’ DEMS FOR CALLING ICE CRACKDOWN \u2018VICIOUS LIES\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

During that visit, Torres was confronted by a facility administrator and admitted that he was not an attorney and was visiting as a private person. The confrontation happened after officials in the facility became aware of someone passing a phone to multiple detainees, the letter states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lyons has requested that Escobar provide written responses to several questions, including whether Torres was employed by the legislator on the dates he visited the ICE facility, if he is a licensed attorney and if she was aware of his alleged actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lyons also asked Escobar if she condones such behavior and whether she will hold Torres accountable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to Escobar’s office. Escobar has called Camp East Montana<\/a> “disastrous and inhumane” and has demanded that it be shut down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The United States already has the largest immigration detention network in the world, and these added facilities serve only as tools for the administration\u2019s inhumanity,” she wrote in a March X post on X, in which she criticized the “chronic substandard conditions” at the migrant facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other congressional staffers have tried similar ploys to access ICE facilities in the past. In November, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., fired a staffer<\/a> who claimed to be an attorney for an illegal immigrant in an effort to facilitate his release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edward York<\/u><\/a> claimed he was legally representing Jose Ismeal Ayuzo Sandoval. Sandoval, a Mexican citizen, had a DUI conviction and was previously deported four times to Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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