7 Quotes by Jameel Jaffer

More than two years after we filed our Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI continues to withhold documents that the public clearly has a right to see. As we've been saying from the outset, the public has a right to know what the government's policies were and who put them in place.

Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States.

The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.

The government doesn't have the authority to exclude people from the country, invited scholars, simply because it doesn't like what they have to say.

The immigration laws should not be used as instruments of censorship. The State Department should not be deciding which ideas Americans hear and which they do not.

The documents that have been released under the Freedom of Information Act make very clear that senior military officials and civilian leaders should be held accountable for what took place.

The concern is that the government is using the ideological exclusion provision and other immigration laws to manipulate and censor political and academic debate inside the United States.