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Syracuse, N.Y. — A Syracuse University-based research group won a major court ruling Tuesday requiring federal immigration agencies to release detailed enforcement data.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) and its co-director, Susan B. Long, won a federal FOIA lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Long is also an associate professor of managerial statistics at Syracuse University.
U.S. District Judge David N. Hurd, who is based in Utica, ruled that the agencies must begin turning over large amounts of immigration enforcement data. The lawsuit was filed in December 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
The lawsuit accused ICE and CBP of failing to respond to requests for records in a federal database that tracks immigration enforcement actions, including arrests, detention and deportations.
TRAC sought linked person-by-person data on individuals with removal cases and those apprehended by CBP, along with associated code files and lookup tables necessary to interpret the data. Despite missed deadlines, both federal agencies failed to produce any records
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