May 09, 2023
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs to explicitly detail its search of a high-ranking official's phone for records concerning the agency's investigation of a state court judge who helped an undocumented immigrant evade ICE custody, a Massachusetts federal judge said.
August 23, 2022
The American Civil Liberties Union and a government watchdog on Monday filed an emergency motion asking a court to stop U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from deleting data from agency-issued phones following revelations of a Trump-era practice of wiping devices clean when employees leave.
August 19, 2022
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had a Trump administration-era practice of instructing its personnel to delete all text messages from their agency-issued phones when they left their jobs, ICE said Thursday in Massachusetts federal court.
June 03, 2022
A Boston federal judge on Friday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to run more detailed searches to comply with a request for public records related to a Massachusetts state court judge who was indicted for helping an immigrant evade custody.
January 12, 2022
A top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney appeared elated when a sitting Massachusetts judge was indicted in 2018 for helping an immigrant in the country illegally evade custody, asking in an email if it would be "the first of many" such arrests, according to records made public in court Tuesday.
December 15, 2021
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement urged a Massachusetts court to end litigation seeking records on a state court judge accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade ICE custody, saying that certain sought-after documents would harm pending criminal proceedings if released.
May 10, 2021
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and a government watchdog sued federal immigration authorities on Monday, demanding communications concerning the government's ongoing criminal case against a Massachusetts state court judge accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade custody.