FOIA request repository
We post our Freedom of Information Act requests and related litigation filings in order to help others seek data.
Customs and Border Protection Encounters and Inadmissible Data
| Request | Data on encounters and people determined inadmissible into the United States by Customs and Border Protection. PDF |
| Agency | Customs and Border Protection |
| Requestor | Elora Mukherjee; Deportation Data Project |
| Counsel | Amber Qureshi |
| Date | March 15, 2025 |
| Agency response | • Split into two requests by agency, one for inadmissibles to the Office of Field Operations and one for encounters to the Border Patrol • Data posted on CBP FOIA Reading Room for inadmissibles request • Waiting for encounters data |
Center for Immigration Law and Policy v ICE (2024–)
| Request | Data on ICE removals, Secure Communities removals, detentions, arrest/apprehensions, encounters, alternatives to detention, and orders of supervision with anonymized identifiers for immigrants and linked immigration court EOIR case numbers. PDF |
| Agency | Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| Requestor | UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy; David Hausman |
| Counsel | Michael Levin-Gesundheit |
| Date | May 2024 |
| Agency response | None |
| Litigation | • Federal district court lawsuit (ongoing) • Initial data provided March 2025 |
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ACLU v ICE (2018–2023)
The decision in this case led to the requirement that agencies replace private identifiers with anonymized unique IDs if those private identifiers are needed to link different parts of an agency’s database.
| Request | Data on ICE initial apprehensions, risk classification assessments, detentions, and removals with anonymized identifiers for immigrants. PDF |
| Agency | Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| Requestor | ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project; David Hausman |
| Date | Oct. 2018 |
| Agency response | None |
| Litigation | • Federal district court lawsuit • Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision • Data provided November 2023 |