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4 Feb 2021, 10:55 am by Stewart Baker
Under pressure from the courts and the press, the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had reshaped Trump’s order into a calibrated security tool that depended not at all on the majority religion of the countries it affected. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 12:14 pm by Victoria Gallegos
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]
1 Feb 2021, 9:29 am by William Ford, Victoria Gallegos
Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency; Elizabeth Neumann, former assistant secretary of homeland security for counterterrorism and threat prevention; Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League and Brian Michael Jenkins, senior advisor to the president of the RAND Corporation. [read post]
30 Jan 2021, 9:17 am by Victoria Gallegos
  Brian Frazelle argued that the unlawfulness of the appointments of both Kevin McAleenan and Chad Wolf, former acting secretaries of homeland security, render the last two years of policymaking illegal. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 9:05 pm by Brinna Ludwig
President Biden requested the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to notify the President within 60 days on their progress in implementing the new policies. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 6:01 am by Brian Frazelle
And because there may be times when the department’s top three positions are all vacant, the Homeland Security Act permits the secretary to designate a “further order of succession” under which lower-level department officers may serve as acting secretary. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 7:23 pm by Jon L. Gelman
  The Department of Homeland Security alert extends through April 30, 2021.The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 1:25 pm by Victoria Gallegos
The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin in response to a heightened threat of attacks in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riots, reports the Associated Press. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 11:07 am by Tia Sewell
On Jan. 22, Biden ordered the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to work with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to compile a comprehensive threat assessment on violent domestic extremism. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 7:00 am by Jacob Sapochnick
Reinstatement of Prosecutorial Discretion The Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security David Pekoske further issued a policy memorandum entitled, “Review of and Interim Revision to Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies and Priorities,” which directs DHS to conduct a full review of its policies and practices concerning immigration enforcement. [read post]
23 Jan 2021, 10:24 am by Victoria Gallegos, Tia Sewell
Lloyd Austin III to serve as defense secretary; Antony Blinken as next secretary of state; Alejandro Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security and Avril Haines as the next director of national intelligence. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 12:54 pm by John Elwood
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20 Jan 2021, 5:21 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
The bill would also introduce an interesting waiver provision granting the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to waive the physical presence requirement for those deported on or after January 20, 2017 who were physically present in the United States for at least three years prior to removal for family unity and other humanitarian purposes. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 1:27 pm by Tia Sewell
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]
19 Jan 2021, 10:47 am by William Ford, Tia Sewell
.: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas to be the next secretary of homeland security. [read post]
18 Jan 2021, 7:08 am by Susan Hennessey, Rohini Kurup
John Kelly served as Trump’s homeland security secretary and then—in an unusual but not unprecedented move—as his chief of staff. [read post]
18 Jan 2021, 7:00 am by Jacob Sapochnick
Typically, USCIS approves H-2A and H-2B petitions only for nationals of countries that the secretary of Homeland Security has designated as eligible to participate in the programs. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 1:47 pm by Steve Stransky
Coordinating Domestic Terrorism Threat Assessments The version of the NDAA passed by the House in July 2020 included a provision (§ 1781) requiring the FBI, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (an intelligence office within the Department of Homeland Security) and the National Counterterrorism Center to draft a report for Congress that “includes an evaluation of the nature and extent of the domestic terror threat and domestic terrorist groups. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 11:40 am by Andrew J. Grotto
Unlike the National Security Council, which has a formal interagency policy process defined in presidential policy directives and its own executive secretary for managing communications and documents, Congress chose not to create a native, NCD-led interagency policy process for the ONCD. [read post]