US: Immigrant detainee data can't be produced fast

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Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they can't meet a judge's demands they quickly deliver documents about thousands of immigrants who've been detained nationwide for months or years as their immigration statuses are reviewed.

The office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara laid out the government's position to U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman in a letter made public Wednesday.

The letter, dated Tuesday, came five days after the judge criticized the government, saying it had been on notice since the American Civil Liberties Union requested the documents nearly five years ago.

The ACLU eventually filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in Manhattan federal court in 2011 seeking documents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-immigrant-detainee-data-cant-be-produced-fast

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[loudsue]

2. MyGod. This is deplorable.

There was this one paragraph in that article that makes you wonder who is PROFITING from holding these detainees (privatized prisons, I would imagine) .

"The government, though, said in its letter it is "not feasible" to produce documents from more than 22,000 individual files as ordered but said it can produce a reliable sample of 385 files within 15 months, with rolling releases within eight weeks of a revised order."

[bemildred]

3. It's a stall, they are stalling. It's not even plausible that "it's not feasible". nt

[LiberalFighter]

4. It is absolutely a lie.

If they can produce a reliable sample which requires having nearly 99% of the total data then they are scumbags.

The problem may be the user(s) is not trained to retrieve data properly or just plain lazy. Another problem might be too much other work. In that case, the judge's order should go to the top of the list and/or they should hire extra to do the job or allow OT to handle it.

If they can't handle a simple request as that then what is the likelihood that the feds can handle the data mining they are doing with the NSA and other secret orgs?

[Ghost Dog]

5. Can they produce all the people supposedly being held?

Or have some been sold for body parts or something already? One has to ask...