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20 Mar 2021, 6:46 am
Victoria Gallegos shared a livestream of the House Homeland Security Committee hearing featuring testimony from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 10:58 am
The Times adds that Biden is expected to nominate former deputy DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as the first Latino secretary of the department, former deputy CIA director Avril Haines as the first female Director of National Intelligence and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a longtime member of the Foreign Service, as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 12:32 pm
As described in a letter sent today by the American Immigration Council, the ACLU, and 88 legal service provider organizations to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ICE detention facilities have systematically restricted the most basic modes of communication that detained people need to connect with their lawyers and the rest of the outside world, including phones, mail, and email access. [read post]
30 Jan 2021, 9:17 am
Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, which includes audio from last week’s confirmation hearings of four core national security nominees: Avril Haines, Alejandro Mayorkas, Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken: Tia Sewell shared the livestream of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be the U.N. ambassador. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 10:27 am
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said instances of Afghan evacuees flagged as security threats are “an example of a multilayered screening process working. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 12:14 pm
The Senate is set to vote on Alejandro Mayorkas’s nomination for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security at some point Tuesday afternoon. [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 11:07 am
“While we remain vigilant about the threat of foreign terrorism, ideologically motivated domestic violent extremism now poses the most lethal and persistent terrorism-related threat to the homeland today,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at a hearing yesterday before the House Homeland Security Committee. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 7:02 am
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17 Dec 2021, 11:06 am
” Eleven senators wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging DHS to adopt a policy similar to one that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) adopted earlier this year, which states that “[g]enerally, ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody” people who are “known to be pregnant, postpartum, and/or nursing. [read post]
4 May 2022, 1:10 pm
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas noted that the board has no operational authority and would neither monitor U.S. citizens nor infringe on free speech. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 11:54 am
While Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced his intention to shut down inhumane facilities in spring 2021, DHS is now moving to award new contracts to private prison companies. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 1:27 pm
The hearings included Avril Haines for director of national intelligence, Alejandro Mayorkas for homeland security secretary, Antony Blinken for secretary of state, Janet Yellen for treasury secretary and Ret. [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 12:16 pm
ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, which features important excerpts from the Senate confirmation hearings of Avril Haines, Alejandro Mayorkas, Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken, all core national security nominees. [read post]
4 Nov 2023, 9:07 am
Mayorkas. [read post]
22 Mar 2021, 12:31 pm
Last week, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas put out a statement on the crisis, in which he acknowledged that the U.S. is “on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years. [read post]
30 Sep 2023, 4:45 am
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. [read post]
24 Mar 2021, 12:45 pm
The announcement came after Biden and Harris met with Health and Human Service Secretary Xavier Becerra and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at the White House. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 11:02 am
“This latest action is another step in our commitment to reform immigration policies that do not align with our nation’s values,” said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 9:02 am
“A Border Patrol facility is no place for a child,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in March 2021 as unaccompanied children — many trapped in dangerous circumstances by Trump era policies — began crossing the border in increasing numbers due to the backlog created by President Trump’s shutdown of asylum. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 5:21 am
But President-elect Biden’s selection of former Deputy Director of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas as the next secretary suggests that the Biden administration will not seek to dismantle the department, but will likely instead shift its mission and priorities in a way that recalibrates the department’s interactions with the public. [read post]
