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DHS texts reveal how ICE arrest, deportation report was delayed for months: ‘We now wait!’
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Internal DHS texts show how a key ICE report was delayed for months amid frustrations, edits and what one former official says is an attempt to cook the numbers.
The failure to release the report by the end of the calendar year sparked accusations that DHS was trying to hide the impact of the administration’s policies. DHS denied this was the case and told Fox in early January that the report was in final review and its release was expected later that month. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
But emails and text messages, obtained by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and given to Fox News Digital, show how ICE officials were expecting a release any day in early January -- but kept getting hit by delay after delay. He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.