CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER, AL OTRO LADO and TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT v. CBP "This is an action seeking to compel U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”), a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”...
NILA, Apr. 24, 2024 "Today, three immigration attorneys and two individuals filed a prospective class action lawsuit in federal court, challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) nationwide practice of failing to timely respond to requests...
CGRS, Mar. 15, 2024 "Al Otro Lado and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to compel the government to release information on its policies and practices at open air detention sites. Since...
Thanks to a FOIA request by David Cleveland , we now have the May 10, 2023 revision of the USCIS Credible Fear Procedures Manual available to us.
Daniel Bates, Daily Mail, March 8, 2024 "A judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to hand over sensitive material about Prince Harry’s immigration papers for him to review while he decides whether to make them public. Judge Carl Nichols...
Innovation Law Lab, Feb. 22, 2024 " We filed suit against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to demand that USCIS publicly and proactively disclose the Credible Fear Procedures Manual (CFPM)...
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...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 10/18/2023 "The Department of State (the Department) finalizes the proposed rule it published on March 3, 2020, relating to the availability to the public of information that is under...
...that USCIS has an Electronic Reading Room ? "The USCIS Electronic Reading Room provides access to information identified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). We will update the Electronic Reading Room when documents are requested 3 or more times...
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...
AIC, July 6, 2023 "Immigration attorneys representing immigrants in removal proceedings frequently report that immigration courts move up the date of their clients’ individual hearings with limited to no notice about the rescheduling and without any...
Andrew Free writes: "Judge Anita Brody of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued an order denying CBP’s motion for summary judgment on search adequacy, and granting in part Plaintiff Karen Hoffmann’s motion for summary...
AIC, June 20, 2023 " This Practice Advisory provides immigration practitioners with step-by-step instructions a bout how to file a laws uit under the Freedom of Information Act. The Advisory explains the preliminary steps that need to be completed before...