FOIA Request to HSI Phoenix Field Office Regarding Bulk Collection of Wire Transfer Records

On March 8, 2022, it was revealed that ICE has used administrative subpoenas to obtain nearly 6 million records about people sending or receiving money transfers from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico since 2019.

The ACLU, ACLU of Arizona, ACLU of New Mexico and the ACLU Foundation of Texas filed public records requests asking the Phoenix field office of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Arizona Attorney General for records regarding the illegal mass collection of people’s financial records. You can access the public records request to the AZ Attorney General here.