ACLU Sues For Details Of Trump’s Deportation Plans
The Washington Post reports:
Civil-liberties lawyers alarmed by President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to launch mass deportations of undocumented immigrants sued the federal government Monday for information about how authorities might quickly remove people from the United States.
The federal lawsuit alleges that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has failed to respond to requests for basic information about its existing contracts with private airline companies that make up “ICE Air,” as well as ground transportation services, airfields and policies governing deportation flights, including those carrying children.
“We’ve been preparing for a mass detention and deportation agenda for the last nine months,” said Kyle Virgien, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU. “Now that Trump is the president-elect, it’s become apparent that this is a fight that we’re going to need to
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