Free Declaration in Support - District Court of California - California

Case 3:07-cv-03455-WHA

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1 SCOTT N. SCHOOLS, SC 9990 United States Attorney 2 JOANN M. SWANSON, CSBN 88143 Assistant United States Attorney 3 Chief, Civil Division EDWARD A. OLSEN, CSBN 214150 4 Assistant United States Attorney 5 6 7 PETER D. KEISLER 8 United States Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division 9 ELIZABETH J. STEVENS VSBN 47445 Senior Litigation Counsel 10 Office of Immigration Litigation JEFFREY S. ROBINS NY SBN 4355244 11 Trial Attorney 12 13 14 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 16 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 17 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 18 ALIA AHMADI, et al., 19 Plaintiffs, 20 v. 21 MICHAEL CHERTOFF, et al., 22 23 24 25 Pursuant to Local Rule 7-5 and 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I, Jeffrey S. Robins, file this declaration Defendants. ) No. C-07-3455-WHA ) ) DECLARATION OF ) JEFFREY S. ROBINS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) P.O. Box 878, Ben Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044 Telephone: (202) 616-1246 FAX: (202) 233-0397 Attorneys for Defendants 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36055 San Francisco, California 94102 Telephone: (415) 436-6915 FAX: (415) 436-6927

26 in support of defendants' Motion to Dismiss, and declare as follows: 27 1. I am employed as an Trial Attorney for the Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office

28 of Immigration Litigation, and have been assigned Ahmadi v. Chertoff Case No. C 07-3455-WHA.
ROBINS DECLARATION - C-07-3455-W HA

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1 As such, I have personal knowledge of the following facts and could testify regarding these facts if 2 called to do so. 3 2. Attached as Exhibit 1 is the Declaration of Michael A. Cannon, Section Chief of the

4 National Name Check Program Section ("NNCPS") at the Headquarters of the Federal Bureau of 5 Investigation ("FBI"). 6 3. Attached as Exhibit 2 is the Declaration of Jonah Hadary, district adjudications officer

7 at the San Francisco District office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS"). 8 4. Attached as Exhibit 3 is a true and correct copy of an April 26, 2006 Fact Sheet from the

9 Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services entitled 10 "Immigration Security Checks--How and Why the Process Works." 11 5. Attached as Attachment A is true and correct copy of the decision of the United States

12 Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Walji v. Gonzales, No. 06-20937, slip op. (5th Cir. June 13 19, 2007) pending reh'g. 14 I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct and that this

15 declaration was executed under the laws of the United States on this 31st day of August, 2007, in 16 Washington, D.C.. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
ROBINS DECLARATION - C-07-3455-W HA

/S/ JEFFREY S. ROBINS Trial Attorney Office of Immigration Litigation U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division P.O. Box 878, Ben Franklin Station Washington, DC 20044 (202) 616-1246 FAX: (202) 233-0397

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