The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) is suing President Joe Biden’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, alleging that it withheld inside information about its policy of concealing the identities of criminal illegal aliens arrested by its agents. .
On Thursday, IRLI’s Dale Wilcox announced that the watchdog group is suing ICE after it failed to respond to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
The request asked ICE to turn over internal information and emails about how it decides when to release the identities of criminal illegal aliens in press releases.
I.R.I. investigation A study last year found that under former President Donald Trump, ICE named 97 percent of criminal illegal aliens identified in press releases, but under the Biden administration, ICE named 97 percent of criminal illegal aliens named in press releases. It was found that only 67% of people
“ICE’s sudden decision to omit the names of criminal aliens from press releases leaves the public unable to determine whether dangerous criminal aliens have been removed from the United States,” said Matt O’Brien, IRLI’s Director of Investigations. It seems like a deliberate attempt to do so.” statement. “This is rather hypocritical coming from an administration that claims to be the most transparent in American history.”
More recently, for example, ICE issued Press release detailing the arrest of an unidentified 27-year-old illegal alien from Ecuador who was convicted of second-degree assault and indecent assault on a child in Danbury, Connecticut.
In another example, ICE be familiar with The case of a 32-year-old Dominican illegal alien convicted in Waterbury, Connecticut, of cocaine trafficking. Despite the conviction, the identity of the illegal alien was not revealed.
Even in the most egregious criminal cases, ICE refuses to name illegal alien suspects. For example, a 20-year-old Brazilian arrested He was charged with raping a child in Milford, Massachusetts, and was charged by authorities this month. The man’s name has not been released.
“This is yet another shameless attempt by this administration to cover up the disastrous effects of its immigration policies,” Wilcox said.
Withholding the names of criminal immigration offenders effectively consigns their cases to the memory hole, making it harder for watchdog groups to hold the White House accountable for its destructive actions. It will be. The American people deserve transparency on this issue. [Emphasis added]
The case is Immigration Reform Law Institute v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.no. 24-cv-1101 United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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