The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is suing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for allegedly unlawfully withholding information about immigration detainees in county jails.

The latest disclosure provides further information identifying the specific facilities in question: ICE also withheld a number of documents in this FOIA disclosure, obscuring the names of specific ...

A Freedom of Information Act request from the Oversight Project may potentially open a new avenue for mass deportations, according to one lawyer involved.

The free speech advocate argues county jails holding people for ICE are working to withhold key records by misapplying an "obscure" federal rule.

ICE detains approximately 37,000 people each day via a network of more than 120 immigration detention facilities nationwide, per an ACLU Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, citing ICE ...

A lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Michigan and the national ACLU seeks to force the release of records by both U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the county jails it contracts with, on ...

At the same time, ICE officials often decline to provide those records under FOIA since in many cases they simply do not possess them, the lawsuit states. "Public scrutiny of government conduct is ...