Migrant caravan/tent cities policy guidance
| Tracking # |
2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197 2019-HQFO-00148 |
| Submitted | Nov. 6, 2018 |
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From: Brendan O'Connor
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
- All policy guidance on the handling of the "migrant caravan," produced by DHS and used by CBP officials at the border and ICE agents in detention facilities
- All policy guidance on the creation of "tent cities," produced by DHS and used by CBP officials at the border and ICE agents in detention facilities
- All records of communications from DHS's Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties regarding the "migrant caravan" and "tent cities"
Please restrict your search to records created from August 1, 2018 to the date this request is processed.
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,
Brendan O'Connor
From: Department of Homeland Security
Good Morning,
Attached is our acknowledgment of your DHS FOIA request. If you need to contact this office again concerning your request, please provide the DHS reference number. This will enable us to quickly retrieve the information you are seeking and reduce our response time. This office can be reached at 866-431-0486.
Regards,
DHS Privacy Office Disclosure & FOIA Program
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Department of Homeland Security
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Washington, DC 20528-0655
Telephone: 1-866-431-0486 or 202-343-1743
Fax: 202-343-4011
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FOIA website (http://www.dhs.gov/foia)
From: Department of Homeland Security
November 14, 2018 Brendan O'Connor MuckRock 411A Highland Ave Somerville, MA 02144-2516 RE: ICE FOIA Case Number 2019-ICFO-21128 Dear Mr. O'Connor: This acknowledges receipt of your November 07, 2018, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for all policy guidance on the handling of the "migrant caravan," produced by DHS and used by CBP officials at the border and ICE agents in detention facilitiesall policy guidance on the creation of "tent cities," produced by DHS and used by CBP officials at the border and ICE agents in detention facilitiesall records of communications from DHS's Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties regarding the "migrant caravan" and "tent cities". Your request was received in this office on November 14, 2018. 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. Provisions of the FOIA allow us to recover part of the cost of complying with your request. We shall charge you for records in accordance with the DHS Interim FOIA regulations, as they apply to media requesters. As a media requester, you will be charged 10 cents per page for duplication; the first 100 pages are free. We will construe the submission of your request as an agreement to pay up to $25.00. You will be contacted before any further fees are accrued. We have 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.
Your request has been assigned reference number 2019-ICFO-21128. 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 2017-ICFO-XXXXX or 2018-ICFO-XXXXX tracking number. If you need any further assistance or would like to discuss any aspect of your request, please contact the FOIA office. You may send an e-mail to ice-foia@ice.dhs.gov, call toll free (866) 633-1182, or you may contact our FOIA Public Liaison, Fernando Pineiro, in the same manner. Additionally, you have a right to 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. (http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status) http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status
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: Department of Homeland Security
The FOIA referral CBP-2019-009197 has had its Tracking Number changed to CBP-OFO-2019-009197. This is normally due to the referral being transferred to another agency (for example, EPA to Dept. of Commerce) or to a sub-agency to process it. Additional details for this referral are as follows:
* Old Tracking Number: CBP-2019-009197
* New Tracking Number: CBP-OFO-2019-009197
* Requester Name: Brendan O'Connor
* Date Submitted: 11/07/2018
* Long Description: 2019-HQFO-00148; The requester is seeking records regarding seeking: all policy guidance on the handling of the "migrant caravan," produced by
DHS and used by CBP officials at the border and ICE agents in detention facilities; all policy
guidance on the creation of "tent cities," produced by DHS and used by CBP officials at the
border and ICE agents in detention facilities; all records of communications from DHS's Office
of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties regarding the "migrant caravan" and "tent cities"
(Date Range for Record Search: From 8/1/2018 To 11/7/2018).
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Department of Homeland Security
The FOIA referral CBP-OFO-2019-009197 has had its Tracking Number changed to CBP-2019-009197. This is normally due to the referral being transferred to another agency (for example, EPA to Dept. of Commerce) or to a sub-agency to process it. Additional details for this referral are as follows:
* Old Tracking Number:
CBP-OFO-2019-009197
* New Tracking Number:
CBP-2019-009197
* Requester Name:
Brendan O'Connor
* Date Submitted:
11/07/2018
* Long Description:
2019-HQFO-00148; The requester is seeking records
regarding seeking: all policy guidance on the handling of the "migrant caravan," produced by
DHS and used by CBP officials at the border and ICE agents in detention facilities; all policy
guidance on the creation of "tent cities," produced by DHS and used by CBP officials at the
border and ICE agents in detention facilities; all records of communications from DHS's Office
of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties regarding the "migrant caravan" and "tent cities"
(Date Range for Record Search: From 8/1/2018 To 11/7/2018).
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
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 Nov. 6, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2019-HQFO-00148, CBP-OFO-2019-009197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Department of Homeland Security
Mr. O'Connor,
ICE's final response to your FOIA request, 2019-ICFO-21128, for all policy guidance on the handling of the "migrant caravan," produced by DHS and used by CBP officials at the border and ICE agents in detention facilitiesall policy guidance on the creation of "tent cities," produced by DHS and used by CBP officials at the border and ICE agents in detention facilitiesall records of communications from DHS's Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties regarding the "migrant caravan" and "tent cities" is attached.
Sincerely,
ICE FOIA
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2019-ICFO-21128
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