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Dear John,
The American Immigration Council is highlighting the need for accountability as part of Sunshine Week, a national celebration of access to public information.
Transparency work within the immigration system involves investigations into both new problems and longstanding issues.
This week, we filed a request [[link removed]] to learn more about the U.S. response to the current situation in Afghanistan, where thousands of Afghans are fleeing a horrific humanitarian crisis. Despite the Biden administration’s public commitment to helping Afghans seek safety in the United States, a key method for providing this protection—humanitarian parole—is not working.
DHS has seemingly processed only a fraction of the applications for humanitarian parole. Afghans continue to face significant delays in humanitarian parole and refugee processing.
We also filed a request [[link removed]] to learn more about the longstanding, but little understood, role of Assistant Chief Immigration Judges (ACIJ). Approximately 40 ACIJs wield significant influence over immigration courts throughout the country and in some cases play a hands-on role in deciding individual cases.
Read more about these FOIA requests [[link removed]]
Just recently we have seen the impact of our transparency work and celebrated:
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Advocacy
efforts
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that
prevented
CBP
from
destroying
government
records
about
its
abusive
enforcement
practices.


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A
victory
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in
federal
court
that
helped
uncover
information
about
a
program
where
CBP
officers
posed
as
asylum
officers
when
interviewing
individuals
seeking
asylum.


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Success
in
a
state
case
where
we
filed
an
amicus
brief
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challenging
a
regulation
that
blocked
access
to
records
about
individuals
held
in
detention
facilities.


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Sincerely,
Emily Creighton
Legal Director of Transparency
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