DHS refuses FOIA request for Tsarnaev immigration records

Published May 16, 2013 4:00am ET



Department of Homeland Security officials are refusing to release immigration documents for Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, citing the agency’s ongoing investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing allegedly carried out by the Chechen brothers.

Both the Boston Globe newspaper and nonprofit watchdog Judicial Watch have requested immigration records and other records related to the bombings through Freedom of Information Act requests.

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