On March 8, 2007, the Worker & Immigrant Rights Clinic submitted a FOIA request to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (a division of the Department of Homeland Security), seeking a variety of documents related to so-called 287(g) Memoranda of Understanding (or "Agreement") (MOUs) between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ÏCE) and various states and counties.
On January 17, 2008, U.S. Immigation and Customs Enforcement responded in part to the request by producing thirty-four (34) MOUs entered into by ICE and various states and counties. ICE has also represented that it will disclose further records. It has withheld some documents responsive to the initial FOIA request, claiming several statutory exemptions (as to law enforcement interest and privacy, among others).
You can go to Yale's website and download individual MOUs fot the 34 cities or you can just click here and download all of them at once (warning: file is aprox. 60 meg).
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
