| In FOIA Case Against ICE
Coronavirus Cited For Delay By SDNY US
Attorney
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 14 – The US
Attorney's Office on April 14
was defending ICE's delay on a
FOIA request about "ICE moves
to revive six-figure fines
against illegal immigrants /
ICE has issued fines over the
past year to about 230 illegal
immigrants who have defied
judges' deportation orders to
remain in the country, tapping
a tool that has been on the
books for decades." Inner City
Press which uses FOIA covered
it.
For ICE
and US Attorney Geoffrey
Berman, AUSA Alexander Hogan
told U.S. District for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Lewis J. Liman that
under FOIA, "the search for
responsive records has provide
to be further complicated by
many employees working
remotely as a result of
COVID-19."
Judge Liman asked
for a response to argument
that FOIA is not "to benefit
private litigants." But there
are no discovery rights in
these ICE fine
proceedings.
AUSA Hogan
argued, The nature of FOIA is
that you don't get all these
documents all at once. I don't
understand where ICE is not
living up to its
responsibilities, unless this
is really about the documents
ICE gave to the Washington
Times. Perhaps it is. The case
is Austin Sanctuary Network et
al. v. ICE et al, 20-cv-1686
(Liman).
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