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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]
24 Oct 2017, 12:15 pm
Hours after the first Muslim Ban came down on January 27, Acting Commissioner of CBP Kevin McAleenan wrote to officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ask, “Was it your understanding that the EO was intended to apply to LPRs? [read post]
4 Oct 2019, 1:20 pm
Barr, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan, Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, and United Kingdom Secretary of State Priti Patel yesterday asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to hold off on plans to implement end-to-end encryption across all Facebook Messenger services "without including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 7:58 am
As detailed in a Government Accountability Office (GAO) opinion letter issued Friday, neither Wolf nor his predecessor, Kevin McAleenan, were properly made "Acting Secretary" because of errors in the way the DHS order of succession was altered (i.e. manipulated) in an effort to ensure DHS would be run by those most loyal to the President. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 11:00 am
Trump said that Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of U.S. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 2:30 pm
Last week, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen of the Department of Homeland Security and Kevin K. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 1:45 pm
But Homan’s appointment will likely intensify the cruelty of the administration’s border policies.Homan was one of three administration officials, including current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who signed a memo to now-former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen which paved the way for the family separation policy. [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 9:11 am
In a letter to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of DHS, and Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director of USCIS, ten members of Congress asked for clarification. [read post]
22 Aug 2019, 2:43 pm
In a press conference on Wednesday, Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan, announced the administration’s plans to publish a final rule in the Federal Register to do away with the Flores rule. [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]
11 Apr 2019, 9:05 pm
” Kevin McAleenan, who previously served as Commissioner of U.S. [read post]
28 Dec 2018, 11:30 am
After the tragic deaths of two young children in CBP custody, even the agency’s Commissioner Kevin McAleenan has indirectly suggested how funds could be better used. [read post]
29 Aug 2019, 2:39 pm
Under current law, DHS can detain UACs only for 72 hours. [read post]
16 May 2019, 12:46 pm
” In a bipartisan letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, Representatives from New York, Michigan, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Washington, North Dakota, and Vermont complained, “The decision to deploy northern border CBP officers to the southern border makes it increasingly more difficult for the agency to meet their core mission requirements at the border which include effectively securing U.S. points of entry and safeguarding and… [read post]
28 Jun 2020, 9:08 pm
For example, for months in 2019 commentators assumed that Kevin McAleenan was serving as acting DHS Secretary under the Vacancies Act. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 9:14 am
Witnesses will include Michael Fisher, CBP Chief; Kevin McAleenan, acting assistant commissioner of the Office of Field Operations; Mark Borkowski, assistant commissioner of the Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition and Michael Kostelnik, assistant commissioner of the Office of Air and Marine. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 2:00 pm
CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan called family separation a “very rare occurrence,” which is “based on admitted or clear fraud from CBP perspective. [read post]
16 Jul 2019, 2:10 pm
In their statements on the new rule, Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan and Attorney General William Barr are correct that the substantial increase in asylum claims ultimately found to lack merit has clogged immigration courts, incentivized increased immigration from Central America and increased profits for the smugglers all too happy to exploit their customers' desperate circumstances. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm
Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan referenced high levels of undocumented immigrant and illegal drug traffic across the border and stated that this traffic warrants quick action without consideration of environmental impacts. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 3:42 pm
DHS, which was established only in 2003, has three (two in this administration). [read post]
