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“ICE has long had an official policy to not comply with FOIA, and we have had to file lawsuits to obtain access,” said Susan Long, a cofounder of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which has itself filed numerous immigration-related FOIA requests this year. “The issue with the Border Patrol is primarily a problem with inadequate staffing,” she added. Asked about her organization’s success rate in obtaining responsive documents in a reasonable period of time, Long said, “Close to zero.”
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