DC Attorney General sues ICE for information on immigration crackdown
By Lydia Wheeler, The Hill, Oct. 23, 2018
Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine filed a lawsuit Monday to force the Trump administration to answer questions about a crackdown on immigration over the summer.
Racine argues Immigration and Customs Enforcement is violating the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to provide information about immigration enforcement actions between July 9 and July 12 that resulted in 12 people being detained.
Racine said in the eight page lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that activists and community groups have expressed concern that this operation involved ICE officials detaining individuals indiscriminately or based on ethnic profiling.
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