Feds Look to Bar Public Access to Immigration Policy Manual
The Justice Department submitted the manual under a provisional seal because there may be privileged or sensitive information in it.
June 16, 2017 at 02:55 PM
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The same day a federal judge in Atlanta directed that court records be made electronically available to the public in a nationally-watched immigration case over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, government lawyers asked to bar public access to the program's policy manual.
After U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen ordered lawyers with the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Immigration Litigation to produce the National Standard Operating Procedures for the DACA program—they did so, but under provisional seal.
Government lawyers then asked the judge to bar the public from accessing or viewing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) manual for the DACA program—which provides administrative relief from deportation to eligible immigrants brought to the U.S. as children by their undocumented parents.
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