WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project filed a motion for preliminary injunction Friday to expedite production of all documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’ role as the Biden-Harris Administration’s “Border Czar.” The motion requests that all documents be produced by September 21, 2024.   

The Oversight Project submitted a Freedom of Information Act request in July seeking these same records. When DHS refused to comply with its legal obligation, the Oversight Project filed a lawsuit against the Biden-Harris Administration. 

The Oversight Project has filed this motion in its lawsuit against the administration because the Biden-Harris Justice Department has yet again deployed delay tactics in searching for records and is refusing to fulfill its legal obligations under FOIA.    

Mike Howell, executive director of the Oversight Project, issued the following statement on the emergency filing:    

“Border Czar Kamala Harris oversaw the opening of our border to drug dealers, gang bangers, child abusers, terrorists on the watch list, and other criminals. In doing this, she also lost track of over 320,000 children. She has been a complete disaster.  

“Now the lawyers at the Department of Justice have been called in to hide any documents about her reign of chaos. We've caught her in an absolute lie: if she weren’t the Border Czar, as she ridiculously claims, then there would be no documents related to her role.  But here we are again, having to sue our own government for documents that belong to you, the American people, and hearing untold claims of complications and delay in searching for records that they claim do not exist.”   

Vice President Harris’s role in charge of border security and illegal immigration in the Biden-Harris Administration is well documented. The documents at issue in this case will help set the record straight about the Vice President’s role as the Biden-Harris Administration’s “Border Czar.”