Ideological Screening at the Border
Documents released in our FOIA lawsuit for records on the "extreme vetting" program
This Reading Room contains all of the documents produced to date in Knight Institute v. DHS, a FOIA lawsuit the Knight Institute filed on October 4, 2017, seeking records on how the Trump administration is implementing the president’s call for an “extreme vetting program."
Our FOIA lawsuit sought records from the agencies charged with developing the program: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of State (DOS). We requested documents concerning the program and the government’s asserted power to exclude individuals on the basis of their speech, beliefs, or associations.
In response, the agencies released over 300 documents, many heavily redacted, and hardly any referencing the extreme vetting program itself.
How to use this Reading Room: The collection below can be searched by keyword, or filtered using the criteria in the left-hand column. In addition, any search can be filtered for “Key Documents,” which are the documents that Knight Institute staff have flagged as the most significant disclosed.
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Emails between ICE officials re: Endorsing and Espousing Terrorist Activity Paper
Email chain discussing and circulating a paper which discusses the inadmissibility ground for endorsing or espousing terrorist activity under Section 212(a)(3)(B)(i)(VII) of the INA.
4/30/2018
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Emails between ICE officials re: Endorsing and Espousing Terrorist Activity Paper
Email chain discussing and circulating a paper on the endorse-or-espouse provision.
4/30/2018
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Emails between ICE officials re: "Endorse and Esp. Art."
Email chain requesting a "link to the endorse and esp. art."
3/7/2018
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Email with Attachment: ICE Memo: Inadmissibility Based on Endorsing or Espousing Terrorist Activity – First Amendment Concerns
Email circulating a draft legal memorandum addressing First Amendment concerns raised by the endorse-or-espouse provision.
4/30/2018
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Email with Attachment: ICE Memo: Inadmissibility Based on Endorsing or Espousing Terrorist Activity – First Amendment Concerns
Email circulating a draft legal memorandum addressing First Amendment concerns raised by the endorse-or-espouse provision.
4/30/2018
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Email with Attachment: ICE Memo: Inadmissibility Based on Endorsing or Espousing Terrorist Activity – First Amendment Concerns
Email circulating a draft legal memorandum addressing First Amendment concerns raised by the endorse-or-espouse provision.
4/30/2018
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Emails between DHS and DOS officials re: Endorsing and Espousing Terrorist Activity Paper
Email chain discussing and circulating a paper which discusses the inadmissibility ground for endorsing or espousing terrorist activity under Section 212(a)(3)(B)(i)(VII) of the INA.
4/30/2018
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Emails between ICE officials re: Sharepoint Troubleshooting
Email chain troubleshooting a problem with Sharepoint.
4/30/2018
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USCIS Guide re: Terrorism-Related Inadmissibility Grounds
Guide used in the USCIS Academy's basic course overviewing Terrorism-Related Inadmissibility Grounds set out in the INA.
5/30/2018
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USCIS Guide re: Terrorism-Related Inadmissibility Grounds
Guide used in the USCIS Academy's basic course overviewing Terrorism-Related Inadmissibility Grounds set out in the INA.
5/30/2018