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5 Jul 2021, 3:29 pm by John Gotaskie
District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the EB-5 Modernization Final Rule was not lawfully promulgated because the former-acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was not properly serving in his position. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 5:34 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Although there is a possibility that the Department of Homeland Security could appeal the ruling by seeking a stay of the lower court’s decision, as well as an injunction to stop its enforcement, that remains to be seen. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 9:09 pm by Ali Brodie
District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the EB-5 Modernization Final Rule was not lawfully promulgated because the former-acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was not properly serving in his position. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 9:59 am by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
The committee will hear testimony from Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of the department of Homeland Security. [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, 6:01 am by Brian Frazelle
Earlier in January, yet another court (the fifth so far) ruled that former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan never lawfully held that position, and therefore his hand-picked successor, Chad Wolf, also had no right to be acting secretary or establish new Homeland Security rules. [read post]
Then-acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan introduced the new framework at a joint Brookings Institution and Heritage Foundation event, stating that “[t]here is evidence of this growing number of threat actors who seek to attack the seams of our diverse and violent social fabric and incite our nation’s most vulnerable populations ... to violence against their fellow citizens. [read post]
District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled on Saturday that Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf lacked the authority to suspend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 11:32 am by Anne Joseph O'Connell
Nielsen received support from Department of Homeland Security General Counsel John Mitnick to install McAleenan as acting secretary. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The GAO referred the matter to the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security for further review and potential action. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 7:58 am by Jonathan H. Adler
None of the top officials at the Department of Homeland Security have been Senate-confirmed for their positions. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 11:43 am by Paul Rosenzweig
Who is running the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today? [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 11:18 am by Thomas DeLorenzo
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the results of an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, determining that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were improperly appointed to their positions. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 2:52 pm by Ben Berwick, Rachel Homer
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… [read post]
28 Jun 2020, 9:08 pm by Anne Joseph O'Connell
For example, for months in 2019 commentators assumed that Kevin McAleenan was serving as acting DHS Secretary under the Vacancies Act. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 8:59 am by John Lewis, Benjamin Seel, Nitin Shah
Then-Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan first created an entirely new position at U.S. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 2:00 pm by Masha Simonova
However, nine days later, then-acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan created a new position—the USCIS principal deputy director—and appointed Cuccinelli to it. [read post]
1 Mar 2020, 7:29 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
Nine days after Director Cissna's resignation, the then-serving acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, appointed Cuccinelli "to serve as the Principal Deputy Director of [USCIS]," . . . a position that did not exist prior to Cuccinelli's appointment. . . . [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 1:52 pm by John Floyd
”   On August 9, 2019, former secretary of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, informed Hassoun that, “you will therefore remain in the custody of the U.S. [read post]