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"No More Deaths" and the Targeting of Humanitarian Aid Groups at the Border
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![This week’s FOIA round-up: DOJ seals evidence of Border Patrol targeting volunteers, New Mexico’s settlements get pricey, and Parkland parents get stonewalled](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/09/21/CBPcov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
This week’s FOIA round-up: DOJ seals evidence of Border Patrol targeting volunteers, New Mexico’s settlements get pricey, and Parkland parents get stonewalled
For this week’s FOIA round-up, records show the Justice Department motioned to seal text messages implicating Border Patrol’s deliberate targeting of a humanitarian group, and New Mexico settled almost $5 million in legal claims. Also, parents of two victims in the Parkland shooting are being prevented from getting public records about the massacre.
![Homeland Security claims it can’t find border wall records posted on its website](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/07/09/Wall.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Homeland Security claims it can’t find border wall records posted on its website
In late February 2017, the Trump Administration took some of its earliest steps towards implementing a new border wall policy with an executive order and several memos issued by the Department of Homeland Security’s leadership. In response to the policy, MuckRock filed a FOIA request was filed for “memos relating to executive orders signed by Donald Trump,” including but not limited to memos described in a specific article. Just under 17 months later, DHS responded with a letter saying that they were unable to find any such memos. Despite these claims, two of the memos which DHS said they were unable to find had aleady been posted to their website.
![Biometric firm enters into trial agreement with Southwestern Border Sheriffs Coalition](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/12/21/bioCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Biometric firm enters into trial agreement with Southwestern Border Sheriffs Coalition
This spring, private biometric intelligence company BI2 Technologies entered into an agreement with a law enforcement faction known as the Southwestern Border Sheriff’s Coalition. The partnership promised that BI2 would donate and integrate biometric identification devices and systems into sheriff departments along the U.S. and Mexico border.
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Frequency of border searches of electronic devices, 2010-2017
MF Hagen sent this request to the United States Customs and Border Protection of the United States of America