Background

On January 31, 2022, the ACLU of Massachusetts filed a public records request with ICE seeking ā€œ[a]ny and all guidance to ICEĀ OPLAĀ and/or OCC attorneys that is currently in effect.ā€ This request sought to further public understanding of the guidance impacting ICEā€™s treatment of more than one million noncitizens with pending cases in U.S. immigration courts.

Request Submitted To Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Category Immigration
Year Filed 2022
Number of Documents Received 63

Responsive Documents

# File Name File Type File Size
1 Avoiding FTPs @ Master Prep – Boston – May 27, 2021 PDF 162.9 KB
2 Brito Decision Issued – Boston OCC – Dec. 2, 2019 PDF 9.1 MB
3 Broadcast Announcement – Guidance to OPLA Attorneys Regarding the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Laws and the Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion, Kerry Doyle, April 4, 2022 PDF 246.6 KB
4 Broadcast Announcement – OPLA Operational Guidance Regarding Central American Resource Center v. Jaddou, No. 20-2363 (D.D.C. dismissed per stipulation Mar. 28, 2022) PDF 897.8 KB
5 Broadcast Announcement- Guidance to OPLA Attorneys Regarding Prosecutorial Discretion – Boston OCC – April 7, 2022 PDF 670.9 KB
6 Broadcast Message – Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Venezuelans – February 4, 2021 PDF 210.3 KB
7 Broadcast Message – Guidance on Sensitive Gender-Based PSG Issues in EOIR and Circuit Court Litigation – March 7 2022 PDF 100.5 KB
8 Broadcast Message – Impact of Borden v. US – July 2 2021 PDF 271.8 KB
9 Broadcast Message – Implementing Barton v. Barr – June 19 2020 PDF 223 KB
10 Broadcast Message – Implementing Gayle v. Warden – Sept. 23 2021 PDF 360.5 KB
11 Broadcast Message – Implementing Matter of Cruz-Valdez – July 22 2021 PDF 220.3 KB
12 Broadcast Message – Implementing Matter of Jimenez-Cedillo, 27 1&N Dec. 782 BIA 2020 – April 20, 2020 PDF 271.8 KB
13 Broadcast Message – Implementing Matter of L-E-A and Matter of A-B- – June 24, 2021 PDF 290.2 KB
14 Broadcast Message – Implementing Matter of O-F-A-S- – May 12 2020 PDF 296.1 KB
15 Broadcast Message – Implementing Matter of Reyes – Oct. 5 2020 PDF 218.5 KB
16 Broadcast Message – Implementing Matter of Thomas and Thompson – Dec. 21, 2019 PDF 234.8 KB
17 Broadcast Message – Implementing Niz-Chavez – June 3, 2021 PDF 209.1 KB
18 Broadcast Message – Implementing Pereida v. Wilkinson – March 11, 2021 PDF 196.8 KB
19 Broadcast Message – Implementing Ramos v. Louisiana – June 11, 2020 PDF 148.9 KB
20 Broadcast Message – Permanent Injunction Impacting Burden and Standard of Proof in INA 236(a) Bond Hearings – Brito v. Barr – Dec. 9, 2019 PDF 236.3 KB
21 Broadcast Message – Recent TPS Related Issues – Aug. 24 2020 PDF 342.2 KB
22 Broadcast Message – Saravia Settlement Agreement with Attachments – Jan. 21 2021 PDF 5.5 MB
23 Broadcast Message – Updated Guidance – Matter of Negusie – Dec. 16 2021 PDF 239.2 KB
24 Broadcast Message- DHS Position on Connecticut Pardons PDF 122.3 KB
25 CORRECTED Broadcast Message – Implementing Matter of Castillo-Perez – Dec. 31 2019 PDF 525.7 KB
26 DHS Prosecutorial Discretion – Backlog Reduction Initiative – Correspondence – April 13, 2022 PDF 131.3 KB
27 DHS Prosecutorial Discretion – Backlog Reduction Initiative – Correspondence – Feb. 11 2022 PDF 193.4 KB
28 DHS Prosecutorial Discretion – Backlog Reduction Initiative – Non-Priority Cases with PD Events – 2022 – continued PDF 7.8 MB
29 DHS Prosecutorial Discretion – Backlog Reduction Initiative – Non-Priority Cases with PD Events – 2022 PDF 1.1 MB
30 DHS Prosecutorial Discretion – Backlog Reduction Initiative – Nonpriority Cases List Consolidated w Criminal History – 2022 PDF 10 MB
31 DHS Prosecutorial Discretion – Backlog Reduction Initiative – Nonpriority Cases List Consolidated w Criminal History – continued – 2022 PDF 679.4 KB
32 Foreign Fugitive Portfolio – INTERPOL Transition – March 4 2019 PDF 62.8 KB
33 Guidance – Impact of Jennings on Casas-Castrillon – Ninth Circuit – April 13 2018 PDF 171.9 KB
34 IHP NTA Review – Boston OCC Attorneys – Dec. 31 2020 PDF 241 KB
35 Implementation of the Modified Nationwide Preliminary Injunction in Padilla v. ICE – July 23 2019 PDF 911.3 KB
36 Interim Guidance on Impact of Secretary’s Civil Immigration Enforcement Guidelines on PD – Nov. 29, 2021 PDF 213.2 KB
37 Interim Guidance on Impact of the Secretarys Civil Immigration Enforcement Guidelines on OPLA Prosecutorial Discretion – Nov. 29 2021 PDF 155.4 KB
38 Internal OPLA Boston PD SOP – Boston OCC – Dec. 8 2021 PDF 911.6 KB
39 Matter of Avetisyan (BIA 2012) PDF 534.8 KB
40 Matter of L-A-B-R – Aug. 24 2018 PDF 635.9 KB
41 Matter of L-E-A (BIA 2017) – Summary and Practice Pointers PDF 429.8 KB
42 Matter of Negusie [Summary and Practice Pointers] PDF 338.4 KB
43 Matter of W-Y-U- [Summary and Practice Pointers] PDF 152.5 KB
44 Notification to Comply with Nationwide Permanent Injunction of DHS Secretary’s Termination of MPP w TX v. Biden attachment – Aug. 24 2021 PDF 12 MB
45 Operation Horizon – Nov. 16, 2021 PDF 228.8 KB
46 OPLA Boston – Dedicated Docket Standard Operating Procedures – Dec. 8, 2021 PDF 158.5 KB
47 OPLA Boston Dedicated Docket SOP – Boston OCC – Dec. 20, 2021 PDF 419.8 KB
48 OPLA Boston Dedicated Docket SOP – Boston OCC Attorneys – Feb. 16, 2022 PDF 171.1 KB
49 OPLA Boston Standard Operating Procedures Implementing Trasvina’s Interim Guidance – Dec. 8, 2021 PDF 548 KB
50 PLAnet Appeal Workflow SOP – Boston OCC – Oct. 28, 2020 PDF 688.1 KB
51 PLANet SOP for September 2021 Priority Designations & Interim Guidance on Impact of Sept 2021 priorities on PD – Boston OCC – Nov. 30, 2021 PDF 158.8 KB
52 Practice Pointers – Matter of Jimenez-Cedillo, 27 I&N Dec. 1 – Crimmigration – CIMT PDF 308.6 KB
53 Practice Pointers – Matter of Velasquez-Rios, 27 I&N Dec. 470 BIA Oct. 4, 2018 – Crimmigration – Definition of Conviction; Other PDF 215.9 KB
54 Prosecutorial Discretion – Doyle Memorandum – April 3, 2022 PDF 69 KB
55 Sept. 2021 Priority Designations – Follow Up From Staff Meeting – Boston OCC Attorneys – Dec. 10, 2021 PDF 132.2 KB
56 Sessions v. Dimaya – May 3, 2018 PDF 537.2 KB
57 Tracking Dedicated Docket Cases in PLAnet – Boston OCC – Nov. 12, 2021 PDF 380.6 KB
58 UPDATED Broadcast Message – Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness PDF 722.7 KB
59 UPDATED Broadcast Message – Procedures on the Handling of Joint Motions for a Continuance or Administrative Closure for Ms. L Class Members, Potential Class Members, and Their Children PDF 370.8 KB
60 Updated Broadcast Message – Settlement Agreement Impacting Aliens Who Did Not Receive Individualized Notice of the One-Year Deadline to File an Asylum Application – Mendez Rojas v. Johnson – April 7, 2022 PDF 803.2 KB
61 Updated Guidance – PI Entered and Nationwide Class Certified in JOP v. DHS – UAC Determinations – Dec. 28, 2020 – con’d PDF 11.8 MB
62 Updated Guidance – PI Entered and Nationwide Class Certified in JOP v. DHS – UAC Determinations – Dec. 28, 2020 PDF 2.2 MB
63 Updated PLAnet Tracking SOP for Sept. 2021 Priority Designations – OPLA Field Personnel – Nov. 29, 2021 PDF 211.6 KB