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Require humane treatment standards — including in-person medical exams, safe drinking water, and adequate meals — for individuals held in ICE and CBP custody.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 60%

Adversarial re-check confirms the prior rating. All three cited sources are real, live, and accurately quoted. (1) Larsen's official Feb. 10, 2026 statement verbatim demands 'robust minimum standards of care at detention facilities – including access to medical care, clean water, edible food, and protections against abuse' — directly matching the promise's substance (medical exams, safe drinking water, adequate meals). (2) Cascadia Daily News confirms his June 2025 personal oversight tour of the Tacoma Northwest ICE Processing Center, where he inspected the kitchen/medical/housing pods and faulted inadequate staffing, meals, and basic services ('They aren't staffed up fully to be able to serve these people every day with even basic services'). (3) The dedicated codifying bill, H.R. 7335 (Humanitarian Standards for Individuals in ICE and CBP Custody Act, sponsored by Rep. Raul Ruiz, introduced Feb. 3, 2026), mandates exactly these standards but remains stuck in the House Judiciary/Homeland Security committees with 99 Democratic cosponsors and zero Republican support — and Larsen is NOT listed as a sponsor or cosponsor. Applying a party-neutral standard: this is genuine, substantive advocacy and oversight that has not landed and is not legislative leadership of the codifying effort. It exceeds IGNORED (he clearly engaged) but falls short of CHAMPIONED (he is neither the sponsor nor the driver — Ruiz is) and short of any enacted PARTIAL result. ATTEMPTED (+0.25) is the fair, correct label; confidence held at 0.6 to reflect the reasonable-but-not-decisive line between ATTEMPTED and CHAMPIONED.

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