The federal government is not yet saying anything about the people who were detained by immigration enforcement officers in raids they conducted in Manhattan last month.
Federal law requires a response to open records requests within 20 days. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Tuesday failed to respond to a request for public records related to recent local detainments, citing a federal funding hiatus.
A Mercury reporter made a Freedom of Information Act request to ICE on Feb. 3 seeking the total number of arrests and detainments ICE had made in Riley County and Pottawatomie County in the last year. The news organization also requested names, dates and locations of those arrests.
