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Contact: Marguerite Telford 202-466-8185, mrt@cis.org
Washington, D.C. (March 5, 2019) - The Center for Immigration Studies announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Center for Immigration Studies v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (No. 19-cv-605). The Center was compelled to file after ICE failed to comply with the time limit set forth in federal statute with respect to the CIS December FOIA request for specific information pertaining to individuals removed from the United States from 2014-2018.
The lawsuit seeks information such as immigration status and charges, location of arrest, country of citizenship, criminal convictions, place of entry, and departure date. This information will update the Center’s database of removals since ICE’s creation in 2003, and will permit ongoing detailed analysis of immigration enforcement activities over time.
Jessica Vaughan, the Center’s director of policy studies, said, “The Center has brought this action against ICE in an effort to ensure that we have timely access to government data that will enable us to produce fact-based reports on immigration enforcement that are useful to policymakers and the public. This endeavor is especially critical now, when too much misinformation and too many biased studies are contributing to a false narrative about immigration enforcement.”
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"ICE arrests 123 in New Jersey during nationwide operation targeting aliens with prior arrests or convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs"
These individuals will go through removal proceedings before an Immigration Judge or for those under a final order of removal, arrangements will be made to remove them from the U.S.
The individuals arrested throughout New Jersey were nationals of Brazil (3), Costa Rica (3), Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (16), El Salvador (8), Guatemala (24), Honduras (14), Jamaica (1), Mexico (41), Nicaragua (1), Peru (6), Poland (2), Spain (2), and Trinidad (1).
These individuals were arrested in the following counties in New Jersey: Bergen (4), Burlington (4), Camden (4), Cumberland (9), Essex (13), Hudson (8), Mercer (10), Middlesex (14), Monmouth (12), Morris (10), Ocean (3), Passaic (2), Somerset (6), and Union (23). Also, one (1) individual was arrested in Pennsylvania.
They range from age 19 to 56 years old and the great majority were arrested or previously convicted of driving under the influence. Some individuals also had arrests or convictions for sexual assault on a minor, child abuse, possession of narcotics, distribution of narcotics, fraud, criminal restraint, domestic violence, possession of a weapon, aggravated assault, resisting arrest, endangering the welfare of a child, fraud, promoting gambling, shoplifting, burglary, forgery and illegal reentry.
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