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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)

Ethiopian JPATS Operation (page 292)

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Haitian JPATS Operation (page 293)

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