ICE Border Wall Injuries FOIA Request
| Tracking # |
2021-ICFO-38446 |
| Submitted | July 20, 2021 |
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From: Al Otro Lado
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Please see attached request.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Al Otro Lado
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Dear Al Lado,
A temporary password has been issued and sent to the email address provided. Please check your email for this temporary password and return to HTTPS://foiarequest.dhs.gov to login. If you have any previously submitted requests to Department of Homeland Security you will be able to view them by logging into your user account.
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Regards,
Department of Homeland Security
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Dear Al Lado,
Request Number 2021-ICFO-38446 has been assigned to the request you submitted. In all future correspondence regarding this request please reference request number 2021-ICFO-38446.
Regards,
Department of Homeland Security
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Dear Al Lado,
The status of your ICE FOIA request #2021-ICFO-38446 has been updated to the following status 'Received'. To log into the Department of Homeland Security PAL click on the Application URL below.
https://foiarequest.dhs.gov/
Sincerely,
Department of Homeland Security
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 20, 2021. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2021-ICFO-38446.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
March 03, 2022 Al Lado MuckRock News DEPT MR 116398 411A Highland Ave Somerville, Massachusetts 02144-2516 RE: ICE FOIA Case Number 2021-ICFO-38446 Dear Lado: This acknowledges receipt of your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), dated July 20, 2021, and to your request for expedited treatment. Your request was received in this office on July 21, 2021. Specifically, you requested any and all policies and/or formal or informal guidance related to the treatment — including but not limited to detention, parole, transportation, and access to medical services (see request for additional details). Your request for expedited treatment is hereby denied. Under the DHS FOIA regulations, expedited processing of a FOIA request is warranted if the request involves “circumstances in which the lack of expedited treatment could reasonably be expected to pose an imminent threat to the life or physical safety of an individual,” 6 C.F.R. § 5.5(e)(1)(i), or “an urgency to inform the public about an actual or alleged federal government activity, if made by a person primarily engaged in disseminating information,” 6 C.F.R. § 5.5(e)(l)(ii). Requesters seeking expedited processing must submit a statement explaining in detail the basis for the request, and that statement must be certified by the requester to be true and correct. 6 C.F.R. § 5.5(e)(3). Your request for expedited processing is denied because you do not qualify for either category under 6 C.F.R. § 5.5(e)(1). You failed to demonstrate a particular urgency to inform the public about the government activity involved in the request beyond the public’s right to know about government activity generally. Your letter was conclusory in nature and did not present any facts to justify a grant of expedited processing under the applicable standards. Due to the increasing number of FOIA requests received by this office, we may encounter some delay in processing your request. Per Section 5.5(a) of the DHS FOIA regulations, 6 C.F.R. Part 5, ICE processes FOIA requests according to their order of receipt. Although ICE’s goal is to respond within 20 business days of receipt of your request, the FOIA does permit a 10- day extension of this time period. As your request seeks numerous documents that will necessitate a thorough and wide-ranging search, ICE will invoke a 10-day extension for your request, as allowed by Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B). If you care to narrow the scope of your request, please contact our office. We will make every effort to comply with your request in a timely manner. If you deem the decision to deny expedited treatment of yourrequest an adverse determination, you have the right to appeal. Should you wish to do so, you must send yourappeal and a copy of this letter, within 90 days of the date of this letter followingthe procedures outlined in the DHS FOIA regulations at 6 C.F.R. Part 5 § 5.8. You may submit your appeal electronically at orvia regular mail to: GILDFOIAAppeals@ice.dhs.gov
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Office of the Principal Legal Advisor
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
500 12th Street, S.W., Mail Stop 5900
Washington, D.C. 20536-5900
Your envelope and letter should be marked “FOIA Appeal.” Copies of the FOIA and DHS regulations are available at www.dhs.gov/foia. ICE has queried the appropriate program offices within ICE for responsive records. If any responsive records are located, they will be reviewed for determination of releasability. Please be assured that one of the processors in our office will respond to your request as expeditiously as possible. We appreciate your patience as we proceed with your request.
If you have any questions or wish to discuss reformulation or an alternative time frame for the processing of your request, please contact FOIA office. You may send an e-mail to ice-foia@ice.dhs.gov, call free (866) 633-1182, or you may contact our FOIA Public Liaison, Fernando Pineiro, in the same manner. Additionally, you have a right to seek dispute resolution services from the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) which mediates disputes between FOIA requesters and Federal agencies as a non-exclusive alternative to litigation. If you are requesting access to your own records (which is considered a Privacy Act request), you should know that OGIS does not have the authority to handle requests made under the Privacy Act of 1974. You may contact OGIS as follows: Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road-OGIS, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov; telephone at 202-741-5770; toll free at 1-877-684-6448; or facsimile at 202-741-5769. Your request has been assigned reference number 2021-ICFO-38446. Please refer to this identifier in any future correspondence. To check the status of an ICE FOIA/PA request, please visit . Please note that to check the status of a request, you must enter the 2021-ICFO-38446 (http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status) http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status tracking number.
Regards,
ICE FOIA Office
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Freedom of Information Act Office
500 12th Street, S.W., Stop 5009
Washington, D.C. 20536-5009
Telephone: 1-866-633-1182
Visit our FOIA website at www.ice.gov/foia
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Dear Al Lado,
The status of your ICE FOIA request #2021-ICFO-38446 has been updated to the following status 'In Process'. To log into the Department of Homeland Security PAL click on the Application URL below.
https://foiarequest.dhs.gov/
Sincerely,
Department of Homeland Security
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Dear Al Lado,
The status of your ICE FOIA request #2021-ICFO-38446 has been updated to the following status 'Closed'. To log into the Department of Homeland Security PAL click on the Application URL below.
https://foiarequest.dhs.gov/
Sincerely,
Department of Homeland Security
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