Trump admin violating FOIA by refusing to release documents about 'shifting' immigration enforcement priorities
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 20th, 2025, 6:41 pm
The Trump administration is violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to release documents about "politically motivated" immigration enforcement and mass deportations, a lawsuit filed Friday in Washington, D.C., alleges. In a 30-page complaint, American Oversight, a transparency-focused nonprofit organization, accuses various departments and government agencies of repeatedly violating FOIA law on multiple distinct requests over the past few months.
"The American people deserve full transparency about what's driving this administration's sweeping immigration raids," American Oversight Executive Director Chioma Chukwu said in a press release announcing the litigation. "From arrests in schools and churches to raids on small businesses and farms, the administration's immigration enforcement has disproportionately targeted our most vulnerable — including children, low-income workers, and immigrant communities."
The filing portrays an immigration agenda cloaked in the language of public safety and used as a means to enforce President Donald Trump's political agenda and reward his allies.
"American Oversight brings this action in response to the Trump Administration's mass deportation efforts, which have become increasingly aggressive, sweeping, and — by the President's own tacit admission — politically motivated," the lawsuit reads. "Specifically, he has directed immigration enforcement agencies 'to do all in their power' to detain and deport undocumented immigrants in 'America's largest cities,' which the President characterized as the 'core of the Democrat Power Center.' In doing so, he invoked unfounded conspiracy theories about non-citizen voting, further revealing that these efforts are driven less by public safety concerns than by partisan objectives."
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Full headline: 'Failure to respond': Trump admin violating FOIA by refusing to release documents about 'shifting' immigration enforcement priorities and deportations, watchdog says
Link to COMPLAINT (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25980466-americanoversight-v-dhs-complaint/
Link to COMPLAINT (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25980466/americanoversight-v-dhs-complaint.pdf
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