1 ICLI 131 and 132 Records: Document Title: 2018-ICLI-000131.pdf (347 pages) and 2018-ICLI-000132.pdf (76 pages; extension of first document) Agency & Type of Document Description Date Notes Redacted ICE Email (page 14) “Gene docs”: ICE removals by arresting agency, Draft of ICE’s monthly EO report, summary of ICE’s OIS concerns 10-04-2017 ICE Removals by Arresting Agency (page 15) Table of ICE arrests FY 2013-2017 (convicted criminal, non-criminal, and total) FY 2017 Major decrease between 2013 and 2014 and again 2014-2015; 2017 total of 477 people removed by ICE. ICE Report: Administrative Arrests, Releases and Removals (pages 16-37) Fully redacted. 08-2017 Yes. B5, B6, B7(C) ICE Email (page 38) “Attached is the information requested regarding Haitian nationals and ERO’s removal efforts.” - To Thomas Blank - From Acting Chief of Staff, Enforcement and Removal Operations (redacted) 07-15-2017 In part. B5, B6, B7(C) Haitian Removals Overview: ICE (page 40) ICE began to arrest and remove criminal and non- criminal Haitians in 2016, rescinding its 2011 policy; temporary cancellation due to Hurricane Matthew; No date “Unlike the monthly criminal removal flights where ICE must receive individual approval from GoH for each criminal removed, ICE receives a blanket approval for non-criminal manifests submitted to
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ICLI 131 and 132 Records: Document Title: 2018-ICLI-000131.pdf (347 pages) and 2018-ICLI-000132.pdf (76 pages; extension of first document)
Agency & Type of Document
Description Date Notes Redacted
ICE Email (page 14)
“Gene docs”: ICE removals by arresting agency, Draft of ICE’s monthly EO report, summary of ICE’s OIS concerns
10-04-2017
ICE Removals by Arresting Agency (page 15)
Table of ICE arrests FY 2013-2017 (convicted criminal, non-criminal, and total)
FY 2017
Major decrease between 2013 and 2014 and again 2014-2015; 2017 total of 477 people removed by ICE.
ICE Report: Administrative Arrests, Releases and Removals (pages 16-37)
Fully redacted.
08-2017
Yes. B5, B6, B7(C)
ICE Email (page 38)
“Attached is the information requested regarding Haitian nationals and ERO’s removal efforts.”
- To Thomas Blank - From Acting Chief of Staff, Enforcement and
Removal Operations (redacted)
07-15-2017
In part. B5, B6, B7(C)
Haitian Removals Overview: ICE (page 40)
ICE began to arrest and remove criminal and non-criminal Haitians in 2016, rescinding its 2011 policy; temporary cancellation due to Hurricane Matthew;
No date
“Unlike the monthly criminal removal flights where ICE must receive individual approval from GoH for each criminal removed, ICE receives a blanket approval for non-criminal manifests submitted to
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the GoH. This blanket approval has provided ICE an opportunity to remove Haitians quickly and efficiently without the need for time consuming consulate interviews and document searches…” (40) USAID provided funding to IOM to support GoH with reception of non-criminal removals; Haitian National Office of Migration (ONM) has provided support (names hot meal, 1000 HTG (equivalent of $15), and “medical screening as needed” to non-criminal removals; Notes decrease in detainees. Haitian removals FY12-FY16: FY 12: 758 FY 13: 512 FY 14: 382 FY 15: 433 FY 16: 310
USCIS Memo (page 48)
From: Victor Cerda (acting Director) Subject: Issuance of Notices to Appear, Administrative Orders of Removal, or Reinstatement of a Final Removal Order on Aliens with United States Military Services
09-03-2004
USCIS Memo (page 54)
Haitian Removal Information And Statistics
05-23-2017
Between 10/2016 and 5/2017, ICE conducted 54 removal flights to
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Haiti. 8 were criminal, 46 were non-criminal.
ICE Email (page 55)
Subject: Canada “HIS intel” on Haitians heading to Canada; from Jack to Thomas Blank
08-08-2017
Concern that TPS in U.S. will terminate; “in fact, Canada’s TPS equivalent for Haitians expired three years ago and GoC considers Haiti a safe country…”; “as many as 781unoficial crossings in June 2017”; Reference to Human Smuggling Cell
DHS Email (page 67)
From Bulletin Intelligence to DHS; Homeland Security news Briefing for Thursday, August 10, 2017
08-10-2017
DHS News Bulletin (page 68)
Nationwide news (ends on page 289—not limited to Haiti, but all DHS related); some reporting on Canada;
ICE Email (page 290)
Email announcing attachment of Daily Activity Report
06-21-2017
From Office of the Executive Secretariat (CE)
In part. B6, B7(C)
ICE Memo (page 291)
ICE Memo for Field Office Directors and Deputy Field Office Directors Subject: Travel Document Requests for Nationals of Haiti and Ethiopia
10-25-2007
From Gary Mead, Assistant Director, Management Documents for removal via Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATs)
Request for a Travel Document Check off List 08-2007 (revised)
ICE Policy Memo (page 319)
“Reevaluating the Custody Status of Haitian Nationals” Earthquake: As of January 2010, 528 Haitian nationals were in ICE custody… “In light of the possibility of TPS for some Haitians currently in our custody, field offices must review the cases in their area of responsibility and consider whether release is appropriate.” Due to “operational impediments to releasing all TPS-eligible Haitian nationals at once, ICE will prioritize the release of Haitian nationals in the first category below, followed by Haitian nationals in the second and third categories.”
1. Non-criminal Haitian nationals who are subject to final orders of removal…
2. Non-criminal Haitian nationals who are not subject to final orders of removal
3. Haitian nationals with criminal convictions that do not render them statutorily ineligible for TPS…
Includes table of Current population of detained criminal and non-criminal Haitian nationals (January, 2010)
2010
USCIS Memo (page 323)
For Thomas Horman, Executive Associate Director; Phillip T. Miller, Deputy Executive Associate Director From Marlen Piñeiro, Assistant Director, Removal
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
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Subject: Proposal to Rescind the Policy for Resumed Removals to Haiti Issued on April 1, 2011
DHS Email (page 333)
Subject: For SES Awareness; TPS Strategy Meeting Haiti
11-08-2017
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
ICE Email (page 341)
Subject: Haiti Repats “Haiti is currently cooperating with ICE on repatriations…”
11-09-2017
ICE Email (page 344)
Subject: Response to Senator Schumer Regarding Extension of TPS for Haitian Nationals
05-09-2017
B5, B6, B7 (C)
ICE Email (page 350)
Subject: Acting Secretary Elaine Duke Announcement on TPS for Haiti
11-20-2017
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
ICE Email (page 355)
Subject: OPA Issue: Outstanding Criminal Haitian Final Orders “As of September 2nd, there were 1,570 non-detained criminal Haitians and 141 detained criminal Haitians with final orders of removal.”
11-21-2017
Letter to Rep. Frederica Wilson (page 358)
Letter to Frederica Wilson explaining ICE policy as of 2016 w/r/t removal of Haitian nationals; From Sarah R. Saldaña, Director
2016
ICE Email (page 360)
Subject: For SES Approval: Briefing Memo for Secretary’s Call with Representative Wilson
12-02-2016
B5, B6, B7 (C)
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ICE Memo (page 364)
Haitian Detention and Removals
- Removals resumed in September 2016 - Temporary suspension due to Hurricane
Matthew in October 2016 - ICE removed 30 “criminal aliens” to Haiti on
October 25, 2016 - ICE plans to remove approx. 30 “non-criminal
aliens” on November 3, 2016
2016
Letter to DHS Secretary Johnson from former Immigration Jurists (page 367)
Letter from former IJs and BIA members expressing “concern and disappointment at your decision to use the waning months of the administration to dramatically expand the numbers of men, women, and children detained by ICE.” Recommendations include “Grant TPS to individuals from the Northern Triangle and Haiti who have fled deteriorating conditions in their home countries.”
10-31-2016
Redacted Letter from Sarah Saldaña (page 371)
Letter to Honorable Paul Wickham Schmidt, Former Chairman, BIA
Redacted
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
Letter to DHS Secretary Johnson from Members of Congress (page 376)
Request for TPS for those affected by Hurricane Matthew Signed by 14 MOCs
11-02-2016
Response Letter to John Conyers (page 379)
Redacted
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
Letter to DHS Secretary Johnson
Re: Halting of humanitarian parole for Haitians and their inevitable deportations
12-22-2016
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from NY State Assembly (page 380)
Response Letter to Assemblymen (page 384)
Redacted
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
DHS – NY Assemblymen Email Exchange (page 389)
Subject: NY Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte and Others Write to S1 Urging the Halting of Haitian Deportations
01-10-2017
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
DHS Email (page 392)
Subject: Haiti Repats “ERO RIO provided updates on Haiti’s cooperation with removals for a Haiti TPS task related to an upcoming DHS meeting.”
11-09-2017
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
DHS Email: Rule for Review: TPS Haiti (page 395)
12-06-2017
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
DHS Email: Announcement TPS Haiti (page 399)
Subject: TPS Termination Announcement “This is a good step.” - Adam V. Loiacono, Deputy Principal Legal Advisor for Enforcement and Litigation ICE
11-21-2017
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
DHS Email: Haiti TPS Strategy Meeting (page 405)
11-08-2017
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
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DHS Email: Response to ICE re TPS (page 413)
DHS Email: Haiti Repats (page 423)
Current understanding of repatriation cooperation; Looking for “ground truth” in terms of government cooperation with ICE removal efforts
11-08-2017
Yes. B5, B6, B7 (C)
Letters to DHS from Public officials around TPS and memos