National Bail Fund Network et al. v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement et al. "1. No later than 30 days following the Court’s approval of this Stipulation, Defendant U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) shall (1) send an...
Andrew Free, Aug. 4, 2023 "... As fun as the idea of FOIA lawsuits might be for requestors in the abstract, the reality of suing ICE and DHS FOIA agencies in federal court is often painful, slow, and demeaning. That’s by design. We learned this week...
R. Andrew Free, July 27, 2023 "Deloitte Who? ICE FOIA Office Uses Deloitte SecureRelease Platform to Claim It Has No Records on Deloitte SecureRelease Platform Contract Some of ICE FOIA responses border on performance art. It is only in those terms that...
[This is a long read, but very important for FOIA litigators!] "Government data show systemic failure in ICE’s FOIA Office. Will courts and Congress put it out?" R. Andrew Free writes : " Data released in March by the Department of Homeland...
ACLU of Maine, Apr. 17, 2023 "A federal judge last week ordered United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct a new search of the agency’s records and to release items related to their detention practices in Maine and a proposed facility in...
AIC - " U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) published the agency’s Bond Management Handbook , a manual that provides instruction to agency staff about bond payment procedures, in its electronic library as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Council...
ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project v. ICE "In this action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), plaintiff appeals an award of summary judgment in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (George B. Daniels, Judge)...
TRAC, Aug. 5, 2021 " In an unusual move, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., rebuked Immigration and Customs Enforcement for “thumbing its nose” at the court in a highly consequential...
Kate Evans & Robert Koulish, 24 Lewis & Clark Law Review (forthcoming 2020) "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security arrests as many as 500,000 migrants per year and detains more than 350,000 of them through Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
Robert Koulish & Kate Evans, May 22, 2020 "This Report demonstrates that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violates legal requirements to provide immigrants with an individualized custody determination. Trump’s enforcement policies brought...
AIC, June 19, 2019 "Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), individuals must receive a determination on requests for information within a maximum of 30 days. However, individuals and attorneys who file FOIAs with the United States Citizenship and Immigration...
TRAC, Apr. 23, 2019 "... It appears that the government itself does not actually know what happens to those it arrests at the border. It admits it lacks the ability to reliably follow cases when they pass from one agency of DHS to another - such as CBP to...
Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News, Mar. 25, 2019 "Documents obtained by Rewire.News through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that immigration enforcement officials reached out to the federal agency tasked with naturalizations and immigration services...
Adolfo Flores, Jan. 19, 2016 - "Three immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday against several federal agencies who failed to turn over information on a deportation program after the group filed repeated Freedom of Information Act requests. The lawsuit...
"The last year I've been conducting research on the legality of ICE contracts authorizing private prisons to meet performance goals by paying one dollar per day to the people they're locking up. ICE is not forthcoming about the program and it has...