Here are their demands,all seem perfectly reasonable things to ask for.
LexisNexis Must End Its $16.8 million Data-Sharing Contract With I.C.E.
Westlaw (Thomson Reuters) Must End Its Current Contracts With I.C.E.
Law School Deans Must End Their Contracts with LexisNexis and WestLaw/Thomson Reuters Because Reliance on These Companies for Legal Research Does not Absolve Culpability for Facilitating Deportation and Detention of Immigrants.
Law School Deans Must Publicly Condemn LexisNexis and WestLaw/Thomson Reuter’s Contracts With I.C.E.
Law Schools Must Take Active Steps to Decrease Their Reliance on These Companies by Offering Alternative Research Methods For Their Legal Writing Curriculum.
Law schools Must Invest Time and Resources Into Decreasing Their Reliance on WestLaw and Lexis.
Law Schools Must Commit to Educating Students About LexisNexis and WestLaw/Thomson Reuter’s Harmful Practices & Partnerships in the 1L Legal Writing Curriculum.
Also, there’s this
On Tuesday, October 5th, law students at UC Davis received an email from LexisNexis that attempted to clarify the nature of RELX’s contracts with ICE and Homeland Security. LexisNexis’s email is copied below.
Answering Questions About ICE and LexisNexis (1)
End the Contract’s Response
Read our response here:
This pushback from Lexis is a gross mischaracterization of its collaboration with ICE. Through multiple FOIA requests, the Immigrant Defense Project and Just Futures Law have unearthed documents showing that ICE targets not only folks with a serious criminal history, but also folks with charges regarding their initial entry and re-entry into the US, DUIs, and visa misuse. In fact, in fiscal year 2020, ICE vetted targeting and investigative referrals on over 8.4 million people, which is equivalent to around 80% of undocumented individuals in the United States. This evidence stands in stark contrast to the claim that LexisNexis’s tools are not used for deportation purposes unless an individual is involved in “child trafficking, drug smuggling, and other serious criminal activity.”
Budget justification documents also indicate that the LexisNexis contract is requested for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and explicitly for Fugitive Operations, divisions whose daily core missions are raids, arrests, and deportations.
Furthermore, government documents show that ICE leverages Lexis’s data brokering services to circumvent sanctuary city policies, therefore expanding the scope of this collaboration beyond purely criminal matters. It is also crucial to consider how historic and present-day over-criminalization of Black and brown immigrants feeds directly into Lexis’s flawed understanding of what constitutes criminal activity. The End the Contract Coalition wholeheartedly rejects Lexis’s purported stance on this matter and continues to vehemently demand that the company divest from ICE and the mass surveillance of immigrants.
Students at NYU showed up at the NY Lexis HQ demanding that @LexisNexis end its contract with ICE.
These students are tired of the complicity of lawyers in a system that harms immigrants. This contract must end. Detention and deportations must end! https://t.co/fDWCDNblU5— EndTheContract (@ECCAbolishICE) October 8, 2021
Here are participating law schools in the coalition already…
Participating Schools & Orgs
Albany Law School
Immigration Law Pro Bono Society
Boston College School of Law
Boston College Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Boston College Immigration Law Group
Boston University School of Law
Chapman University
Latinx Law Student Association
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Chicago-Kent Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Cornell University School of Law
Cornell University Chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project
Cornell University Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Duke Law School
Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project
Duke-National Lawyer’s Guild
Georgetown Law
Harvard Law School
HLS Law Student Against ICE
HLS Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Lewis and Clark School of Law
Lewis and Clark Law Students Against ICE
Loyola School of Law-New Orleans
Loyola National Lawyers Guild
New York University School of Law
NYU Chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project
Rights Over Tech
Immigrants Rights Project
Ending the Prison Industrial Complex
Coalition on Law and Representation
NYU Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Northeastern School of Law
Seattle University
Seattle University Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Seattle University School of Law Chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project
Seattle University Total Abolition
Southwestern School of Law
Southwestern Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Stanford University School of Law
Stanford University Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Stanford Advocates for Immigrants’ Rights
Stanford International Refugee Project
Texas A&M School of Law
Texas A&M School of Law Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
University of Alabama School of Law
University of Alabama Chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project
Immigration Detention Defense Board
UC Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley Law Students Against ICE
UC Davis Schools of Law
UC Davis Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
King Hall Immigration Law Association
UC Hastings School of Law
UC Hastings Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
University of Virginia School of Law
University of Virginia Chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project
University of Washington School of Law
UW Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
