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4 May 2018, 1:45 pm by Immigration Prof
Department of Homeland Security released this statement on "Temporary Protected Status for Honduras": "The Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. [read post]
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]
31 Jul 2018, 3:53 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Department of Homeland Security is creating a center aimed at protecting banks, electric companies and other critical infrastructure against cyberattacks—a threat that now exceeds the danger of a physical attack against the U.S. by a hostile foreign group, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 1:29 pm by Bloomberg
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said only about 20 out of a targeted 150 state officials have full security clearances needed to receive classified information on cybersecurity threats to their elections, with the midterm congressional primaries already underway. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 9:25 pm by Gary A. Pappas
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has announced new security measures applicable to all countries in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 3:18 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Image by Lorie Shaull It is with great sadness that we report that today, Monday January 8, 2018, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen M. [read post]
6 May 2018, 3:32 pm by Forrest G. Read IV
In a not unexpected move, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen M. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 3:41 am by Josh Blackman
[In the circuit courts, DOJ cited the Nielsen memorandum as providing an "independent" basis to rescind DACA] The DACA litigation turns, in part, on two separate memoranda issued by two Homeland Security Secretaries: (1) a memorandum from Secretary Elaine Duke, and  (2) a memorandum from Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. [read post]
1 May 2019, 5:33 am by Peter Margulies
Tuesday’s testimony by Secretary McAleenan at a House appropriations committee hearing was vastly different in tone than recent acrimonious appearances by former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who implemented the administration’s disastrous family separation policy. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 11:03 am by Peter Briccetti
He claims that former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen knowingly overrepresented a terrorist threat to Congress. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:29 am by Amy L. Peck and Jessica K. Lang
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, 7:57 am by Elliot Setzer
After the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on April 10, 2019, Kevin McAleneenan assumed the title of Acting Secretary. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 2:32 pm by Tia Sewell
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]
9 Apr 2019, 3:15 pm
McAleenan was one of the three DHS officials to recommend the cruel and inhumane policy to outgoing Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, writing that the department’s best option to “increase the consequences for dangerous illegal crossings” was to “direct the separation of parents or legal guardians and minors held in immigration detention so that the parent or legal guardian can be prosecuted. [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 2:30 pm
On Monday, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen held a press briefing where she doubled down on family separation, denying that the separation of children from their parents amounts to child abuse because, “We give them medical care. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 3:30 am by Steve Vladeck
This time around, the debate involves the Department of Homeland Security—and the resignation/firing/un-resignation/ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 1:30 pm
Yesterday, Secretary Nielsen doubled down, confirming that her agency had sought such prosecutions. [read post]