Lawsuit seeks to stop ICE from hiding locations of detainees

Groups that provide legal services to immigrants filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the Trump administration's new policy of hiding the locations of tens of thousands of detainees with final deportation orders.

What happened

Meanwhile, the policy, adopted suddenly last month to expedite deportations, interferes with immigration lawyers' rights by making it tough, and sometimes impossible, to locate their clients, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston. It asks a judge to matter an order blocking the "unlawful and inhumane" change.

"No one should be denied a meaningful opportunity to defend their rights because the government has made it impossible for their lawyer to find them, " remarked Jacquelynne Bowman, executive director of Greater Boston Legal Services, one of the four groups listed as plaintiffs. "This arbitrary new administrative change leaves hundreds of thousands of people at risk of potentially life-altering consequences without essential legal help."

The bottom line

For now, lawsuit seeks to stop ICE from hiding locations of detainees remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.