The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is suing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for allegedly unlawfully withholding information about immigrant detainees in county jails.
“The Records Rule has placed most records about county-held immigration detainees in an impenetrable black box, shielding them from public scrutiny,” according to the ACLU’s suit filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The ACLU says ICE’s use of a rule blocks the release of information related to detained immigrants that would ordinarily be disclosed through a federal or state records request, according to the complaint filed Wednesday against ICE and ...
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