Advocates File FOIA Suit Over Family Separation Information
Nicole Narea, Law360, June 27, 2018
Law360 (June 27, 2018, 5:56 PM EDT) -- Immigrant advocates filed a suit against the Trump administration Wednesday in Washington, D.C., federal court seeking to compel the government to respond to its Freedom of Information Act requests for information regarding family separation policies, guidance and data.
The suit was filed in response to immigration agencies’ failure to respond to FOIA requests made April 3 by the American Immigration Council, National Immigrant Justice Center, Women’s Refugee Commission, Kids in Need of Defense, and the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project.
They had petitioned for documents describing how noncitizen families are processed at the border, training materials on separating families, and complaints related to family separation, as well as data on the number of families that have been separated and the number of adult family members referred for prosecution.
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