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28 Sep 2023, 4:00 am
First, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a vague, one-page letter to Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke informing her that DHS “should” rescind DACA because, Sessions asserted, the initiative had been “effectuated . . . [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 3:14 pm
Trump, challenging a proclamation from former Secretary Of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and another from former President Donald Trump, which suspended entry into the US without inspection even if someone intended to claim asylum. [read post]
13 Mar 2023, 6:10 am
Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Pat Fallon (R-TX), has proposed impeaching Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his role in carrying out Biden’s immigration policies. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 5:01 am
Secretary Mayorkas explained the administration’s reasons for ending the program in two memoranda issued in June and October 2021. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 5:01 am
Roberts also declined to consider a subsequent memorandum issued in 2018 by Duke’s successor, Kirstjen Nielsen. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 8:42 am
Ultimately, Behring succeeded in showing the acting DHS secretaries succeeding Kirstjen Nielsen (including Kevin McAleenan) were not properly designated in the order of succession in accordance with the FVRA, and therefore they did not hold the authority to promulgate and ratify the 2019 modernization rule. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 1:17 pm
After Kirstjen Nielsen left her post as secretary of DHS in April 2019, until February 2021, when President Joe Biden’s nominee for the post, Alejandro Mayorkas, was confirmed, there were only “acting” secretaries in place. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 5:36 am
Trump tired of the head of DHS, Kirstjen Nielsen. [read post]
15 Nov 2020, 6:10 pm
District Court judge Nicholas Judge Garaufis said in his opinion that when DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned in 2019, the order of succession was straightforward; from the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security to the Under Secretary for Management, Administrator of FEMA, and then the Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 11:03 am
He claims that former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen knowingly overrepresented a terrorist threat to Congress. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 11:32 am
President Trump finally submitted a nomination for secretary to the Senate late last week, the first since Kirstjen Nielsen departed in April 2019. [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 2:06 pm
The complaint alleges that Murphy was repeatedly instructed by DHS officials including Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli to modify intelligence in a way that suited President Trump’s political interests. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 2:32 pm
Brian Murphy is the former acting under secretary of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that after the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, an improper succession occurred, with Kevin McAleenan taking on the position. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:29 am
According to the GAO, Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned from her post in April 2019, was the last DHS Secretary to be properly appointed. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 11:18 am
After the departure of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, Kevin McAleenan assumed the leadership position of the agency. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 7:57 am
After the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on April 10, 2019, Kevin McAleneenan assumed the title of Acting Secretary. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 2:52 pm
In April 2019, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen—the most recent Senate-confirmed secretary of homeland security—tried to amend the existing succession order (see Enclosure B to the linked letter to the comptroller general from the House Committee on Homeland Security, which in turn refers to Executive Order 13753 for a hierarchy for DHS succession) right before she resigned, in order to make Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan… [read post]
19 Jul 2020, 9:07 pm
Nine months later, then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen issued the second memo—the Nielson memo—in response to an order by a federal district court asking DHS for further explanation about the decision to rescind DACA. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 7:58 am
Two months later, Duke’s successor, Secretary Kirstjen M. [read post]
