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American Oversight filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for the release of records that may shed light on the deaths of people in the custody of Trump administration immigration authorities.
American Oversight has obtained records revealing Miller and a top Justice Department official discussing controversial policies and working together to push anti-immigrant messaging in 2018.
The irony of protests against police brutality being met with violent escalation by law enforcement is perhaps matched only by the authoritarianism of the president and attorney general.
FOIA request to U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services seeking email communications about pregnant asylum seekers and the Remain in Mexico Program (MPP)
Documents obtained by American Oversight provide further evidence of miscommunication and disorganization at the same time officials were issuing misleading public statements.
Under Trump, the ability of those escaping persecution or deadly violence to apply for asylum in the United States was drastically and dangerously curtailed. American Oversight is investigating the influences behind some of the Trump administration’s harshest anti-immigration policy changes, including the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols.
FOIA request to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking email communications of Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle, and Acting Deputy Director Ken Cuccinelli regarding the Migrant Protection Protocols, otherwise known as Remain in Mexico. This request also contains key terms related to other policies affecting asylum seekers at the southern border.