Saturday, December 1, 2012

Judge Scolds DHS for Withholding Information

A federal judge scolded the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, for refusing to release records detailing how DHS interferes with non-citizens' rights to legal representation to the American Immigration Council.
     "After sitting on a fairly standard Freedom of Information Act request by plaintiff American Immigration Council for almost a year, defendant U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (a component of the Department of Homeland Security, the other defendant) produced a response riddled with errors," stated U.S. District Judge James Boasberg. "The affidavit meant to demonstrate the adequacy of USCIS's search for responsive records discloses almost nothing about the search itself."

Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/11/30/52735.htm

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