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Daniel M. Kowalski
9 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
More ICE FOIA Follies: From Minimalism to Maximalism, A Path Forward
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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
9 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
More ICE FOIA Follies: ICE FOIA Switches from Email, eFOIA Xpress to Deloitte SecureRelease(TM)
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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Judge Hauls Officials Into Court After ICE Refuses to Comply With Court Order
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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Manipulating Risk: Immigration Detention through Automation
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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Injustice and the Disappearance of Discretionary Detention under Trump: Detaining Low Risk Immigrants without Bond
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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Lawsuit Challenges Systemic USCIS and ICE FOIA Delays
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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
TRAC: Feds 'Flying Blind' on Asylum...And Blinding the Watchers
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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigration Agencies Communicated Prior to Arrest of Sanctuary Leader
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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 8 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
PEP FOIA Lawsuit Filed: NDLON v. ICE
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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS and Private Prisons Refuse to Release Records on Dollar Per Day Wages Paid to ICE Prisoners; FOIA Lawsuit Filed
"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...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Agrees to Release Thousands of Previously-Withheld Records
"Yesterday, a U.S. District Court in Connecticut approved a settlement in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit challenging the refusal of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release tens of thousands of documents about the Criminal...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
TRAC Challenges ICE Claim That Data Are Off-Limits to the Public
Agency Withholding Violates the FOIA Syracuse, NY, October 23 — "The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) has filed a suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) challenging a ruling by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
NIJC Exposes ICE Detention Deficiencies, Files FOIA Lawsuit
"New documents obtained from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reveal that the agency may have adjusted the results of county jail inspections to skirt a Congressional mandate that prohibits the agency from contracting with deficient...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 11 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
New FOIA Lawsuit: AIC v. DHS & ICE (access to counsel)
"ICE’s policies and guidance on access to counsel are difficult to ascertain. As a result, they are a source of great confusion for immigration lawyers, their clients, and the general public. To clarify these policies, the American Immigration...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Takes A Year To Say It Can't Find Data: Withholds information on deportation orders sought in Immigration Court
"Syracuse, N.Y. — On April 20 the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) appealed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) concerning its response to TRAC's April 25, 2011 request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Continues to Stonewall on Immigration Enforcement Data
TRAC, Jan. 10, 2012 : "On January 4 the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) appealed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) concerning its response to TRAC's previous request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DISTRICT COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF KEY ICE MEMORANDUM
October 25, 2011, New York : "Last night, Judge Shira Scheindlin ordered the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to publicly disclose by November 1 a previously withheld internal memorandum that advocates believe will shed light...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 12 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE paints bleak picture of detention system
"More than 1,000 pages of internal reports from ICE's Office of Detention Oversight, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, paint an often bleak picture of the inside of the nation's immigration detention system, with...
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