A federal judge in New York state has ordered Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to release information on how it’s enforcing immigration laws on buses and trains. The agency was sued by a nonprofit group that’s investigating racial profiling by federal agents along the northern border.
Saying she's lost patience with the agency, the judge ruled that CBP now must surrender its internal information on arrests made by agents boarding buses and trains in New York.
Nancy Morawetz is a law professor and the attorney for the non-profit Families for Freedom. That’s the group that sued CBP for the information.
"They said they never kept statistics so they never gave us statistics," Morawetz said. "Then it turned out they kept statistics on a daily basis."
CBP has always run patrols on transportation hubs like bus stations and airports. Lately, it’s come under criticism by immigrant rights groups who accuse it of trying to enforce immigration laws far from the border and on people who never left the country.
