Suit made against Ice comes as Trump vows to deport millions of undocumented immigrants upon taking office

Summary

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding details on plans to implement President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportation program.

The lawsuit follows ICE’s failure to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in August.

The ACLU seeks information on ICE’s chartered flights, transportation contracts, and facilities potentially used for deportations.

Trump has vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and plans to declare a national emergency to activate military resources.

Advocates warn the program could devastate immigrant communities. Investigations are ongoing.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    231·
    11 hours ago

    And this is where he’s got the ACLU beat… he doesn’t actually have any plans except to write a scary sounding executive order on day one an assume Steven Miller will come up with a real plan.

    • mkwt@lemmy.world
      26·
      11 hours ago

      And ICE right now doesn’t take orders from Trump… They take orders from that other guy. The ACLU knows this because they understand constitutional law. They’re not looking for the concrete deportation plans; they want general background on what the infrastructure looks like, so they can file challenges with the correct factual details quickly if shit does kick off.

      For example, if they get the tail numbers on all the planes they can track them in flightaware or in a worse case by recruiting spotters. If they want to file a lawsuit, they’re gonna need to know some details about who got sent where and when.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        14·
        11 hours ago

        And, it’s also more likely that the Biden administration will cooperate giving them the information they’d need to take legal action under Trump.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          6 hours ago

          Biden does not control ICE, it’s a rogue agency that he was too pathetic to pull the plug on.

    • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
      71·
      11 hours ago

      I think they’re setting this up to be a whole bunch of nothing. Their current plan is to just tell the states to deport everyone. States don’t do shit on behalf of the federal government for free. If the fed doesn’t pay, the states say no way. So a few red states will deport some people but then he’ll go start to blaming dem states for cock blocking him.

      Don’t get me wrong, this will destroy the lives of thousands of people and be a stain on our nation. But no way they’re deporting 20,000,000.