Lawsuit seeks to block ICE from hiding locations of detainees with final removal orders
The groups say the change blocks lawyers from finding clients and has delayed or missed legal filings for more than 16,000 detainees.
- On Wednesday, legal groups filed a lawsuit in Boston challenging the Trump administration's policy of hiding the locations of detainees with final deportation orders, blocking immigration lawyers from locating their clients.
- Adopted last month to expedite deportations, the directive removed detainee locations from the Online Detainee Locator System, affecting more than 16,000 of the nearly 69,000 people in ICE custody.
- Lawyers now spend 'significantly more time' tracking clients, leading to missed legal filings. Calls to the Removal Information Line often result in 'long wait times on hold, sudden hang-ups, a general lack of information or no answer at all.'
- Plaintiffs argue the change violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the First Amendment, asking a federal judge to block what they term an 'unlawful and inhumane' directive.
- ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to the filing. Officials previously noted they are prioritizing deportations and facing a 'historic number of injunctions' from courts.
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The policy, adopted suddenly last month to expedite deportations, interferes with immigration lawyers’ rights by making it difficult to locate their clients.
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Groups that provide legal services to immigrants filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the Trump administration’s new policy of hiding the locations of tens of thousands of detainees with final deportation orders. The policy, adopted suddenly
Lawsuit seeks to block ICE from hiding locations of detainees with final removal orders – WTOP News
Groups that provide legal services to immigrants filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the Trump administration’s new policy of hiding the locations of tens of thousands of detainees with final deportation orders. The policy, adopted suddenly last month to expedite deportations, interferes with immigration lawyers’ rights by making it difficult, and sometimes impossible, to...
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