Stanford and U.C. Davis Clinics Uncover New Details About Federal Government’s Immigration Detention System
The Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic release report revealing that the federal government’s immigration bond system is a $1.5 billion operation. The report, based on records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, also details that the federal government is holding more than $200 million owed to immigrants and their families.
“The loss of millions of dollars that legally belong to immigrants and their families is an indictment of the broken immigration detention system.”
Jennifer Stark, Clinical Supervising Attorney with the Stanford Immigrants’ Rights Clinic.
New Records Uncovered by the Clinics' Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit
The Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic uncovered records from the Department of Homeland Security, a federal agency responsible for immigration enforcement, showing that the federal government’s bond operations are multi-million dollars in scope.
Most Important Documents Uncovered by the Stanford and UC Davis Clinics About the Bond System
- Bond Management Information System (BMIS) Reports and Descriptions, July 2018
- Bond Management Information System Data Fields, July 2018
- Bond Statistics from FY 2015
- DHS BFC Monthly Bond Stats Report_FY13-FY18
- DHS BFC Monthly Bond Stats Report_FY18, Aug. 2018
- DHS BMIS Daily Reconciliation Report, June 2018
- DHS Technical Amendments Relating to Immigration Bonds
- Email from Julie Davis re Unclaimed Bond Money and BFC Report, August 2018
- ICE Aging Breach Bonds Report, July 2017
- ICE BMIS Desposits SF215 Report, May 2018
- ICE Bond Management Handbook, Aug. 2014
- ICE Bond Mgmt Procedures Training, July 2010
- ICE Directions for Using Demand Notices to Cash Bond Obligors
- ICE ERO Multi-Disciplinary Training on Immigration Bonds, 2011
- ICE Final Field Memo re Declarations of Breach of Delivery Bonds, April 2005
- ICE Foreign Bond Payment Report, July 2018
- ICE IT Cash Bond Training Manual, Jan. 2013
- ICE IT Data Management Plan for eBonds, May 2012
- ICE IT Surety Bond Training Manual, January 2013
- ICE Manual on Cash Bond Procedures, April 2009
- ICE Manual on Field Financial Procedures for Bonds, rev’d April 2007
- ICE Manual on Field Financial Procedures for Bonds, rev’d October 2012
- Unclaimed Bond Money over 25K in Trust FY2008_FY2016 Q1 from Gelb v DHS
Other Documents Uncovered by the Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit
DHS POLICIES, PROCEDURES, MANUALS, AND MEMOS RELATED TO BOND
DHS REPORTS, DATA, AND STATISTICS ABOUT BOND
DHS MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS RELATED TO BOND