SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico– The American Civil Liberties Union phase in Puerto Rico filed a claim against the island’s justice assistant and its transport and public jobs division on Wednesday over secret information of immigrants doing not have lawful condition shown to government representatives.
Given That 2013, the united state area has actually enabled these immigrants to acquire a vehicle driver’s permit, with almost 6,000 having actually obtained one.
The ACLU is asking that a court order the transport division and Puerto Rico’s federal government to hand over all records related to the sharing of that individual info.
The ACLU implicated the transport firm of not giving duplicates of info demands provided by the united state Division of Homeland Protection and firms consisting of Migration and Traditions Enforcement, along with lawful evaluations and info sent to adhere to those demands.
Annette MartÃnez Orabona, executive supervisor of the ACLU in Puerto Rico, claimed the goal of the 2013 legislation was “specifically to secure the information for non-immigration functions, so the federal government acted unlawfully by giving claimed info to a government entity without evidently a court order authorized by a court.”
The ACLU claimed in the claim that the secret information was shown to government representatives in between February and March.
The ongoing arrests in Puerto Rico have actually stunned and agitated several in the united state area, where immigrants without lawful condition had actually lived without anxiety of being restrained till united state Head of state Donald Trump carried out a brand-new plan and vowed to deport numerous individuals that have actually gone into the USA unlawfully.
From January to late September, ICE representatives in Puerto Rico have arrested at least 1,128 people believed of existing unlawfully, according to the ACLU. Most of them are from the surrounding Dominican Republic.
