Well, it appears from this insidenova article that the County has had enough: they are suing DHS. You can read it in the article but the long and short of it is the County is concerned that DHS is not deporting people but simply turning them loose. That’s bad enough but what really outrages me is that the County has submitted two Freedom of Information Act requests that have gone unanswered.
This is just stunning. DHS has not provided an answer of any sort. It hasn’t said “we can’t tell you for whatever bogus reason we have dreamed up”, they’ve just round filed the requests!!! I’m not going to make the argument that Manassas is all things to all people but I think the gov’t here gets most of it right: We don’t have illegal meetings, we balance the budget and, when folks submit FOIA requests they get answered. The answer you get may not be the answer you want or in the particular format you want but you get something. I know that the city takes these seriously. There just isn’t any excuse for this to happen.
I hope that PWC wins but I’m not optimistic. I’m sure that some secret court somewhere will declare the information to be important to homeland security and it will go nowhere. Hell, they might lock up the BOCS for “security reasons”…:)
