Attorney Sues for Access to Closed Archive

摘要

Hassan Ahmad, a Virginia-based immigration attorney, has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and a lawsuit to view the papers of John Tanton held at the University of Michigan's (UM) Bentley Historical Library (BHL).Tanton, a retired ophthalmologist from Petoskey, MI, founded several groups that sought to constrain immigration to the United States and is considered by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to be the "racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement." Ahmad has argued that the material should be openly available, as organizations founded by Tanton have ties to members of the Trump administration and are relevant to current controversies over immigration policies.