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22 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Stephen Miller “asked that I send you this email,” the head of the ICE union wrote to a top Trump DOJ official in April 2017.

What’s in the email? It’s fully redacted. We’re litigating to lift that redaction.
Chris Crane, president of the ICE union, reportedly had unique access and influence with former President Trump, the White House, and DHS leadership.

We’re currently in litigation over communications between Crane and DOJ senior official Gene Hamilton.
independent.co.uk/voices/border-…
Specifically, we’re litigating to lift redactions from a set of records we’ve already received via FOIA as part of our investigation into former Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s influence across the administration.
americanoversight.org/investigation/…
These records also show Crane’s access and influence as Hamilton discussed arranging a meeting between Crane and Kirstjen Nielsen, who at the time was chief of staff to the DHS secretary.
americanoversight.org/document/dhs-e…
It’s clear that Crane, a relatively low-level career employee, only had access to senior leaders because he led the ICE union. The emails we’re fighting over show that Crane was communicating in his capacity as head of the union not in his role as an ICE employee.
But DHS is trying to keep the emails redacted arguing that they were standard internal deliberations with an employee. We’ve filed a motion for summary judgment challenging that position.
americanoversight.org/document/compl…

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