Immigrant Def. Project v. DHS (S.D.N.Y.) -- holding that: (1) ICE’s search was inadequate because it neglected to search its Office of Public Affairs for records pertaining to “Operation Palladium,” an enforcement program initiated during the Trump Administration, and because it omitted “clearly relevant” search terms; (2) ICE failed to sufficiently explain the applicability of the deliberative process and attorney work-product privileges to two disputed emails; and (3) ICE properly relied on Exemption 7(E) to redact a fugitive operations handbook , but it did not demonstrate the propriety of its remaining withholdings using the same exemption.
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