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28 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Anil Kalhan
Earlier this month, Judge Andrew Hanen—the Bush-appointed judge in Texas who, back in 2015, Republican state elected officials handpicked to give legal effect to their political attacks on the Obama administration’s immigration policies—issued his latest ruling invalidating DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 3:24 am by Seán Binder
 Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and ex-attorney general Jeff Sessions will be deposed as lawyers representing the families allege their agencies acted in bad faith to separate undocumented immigrants from their minor children. [read post]
Trump, challenging a proclamation from former Secretary Of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and another from former President Donald Trump, which suspended entry into the US without inspection even if someone intended to claim asylum. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 5:01 am by Peter Margulies
In a 5-4 decision on June 30, the Supreme Court cleared away a major obstacle to the Biden administration ending the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program (officially called Migrant Protection Protocols or MPP). [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 5:01 am by Peter Margulies
  Roberts also declined to consider a subsequent memorandum issued in 2018 by Duke’s successor, Kirstjen Nielsen. [read post]
” Former president Donald Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, announced the MPP in January 2019. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 8:42 am by Zain Abidi
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]
17 Jun 2021, 1:17 pm by Jessica K. Lang
After Kirstjen Nielsen left her post as secretary of DHS in April 2019, until February 2021, when President Joe Biden’s nominee for the post, Alejandro Mayorkas, was confirmed, there were only “acting” secretaries in place. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 6:01 am by Brian Frazelle
It is under such an order, the Trump administration claimed, that Kevin McAleenan became acting secretary in 2019 when then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned. [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]
5 Oct 2020, 12:04 pm by Anna Salvatore, Tia Sewell
Brett Winterford, editor of Risky Business, will moderate a strategy discussion with Kirstjen Nielsen, former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security and Andrew Penn, CEO of Telstra, on public-private cooperation in ensuring cybersecurity of critical infrastructures. [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]
16 Sep 2020, 5:01 am by Brandon Kirk Williams
The Track 1.5 meetings were convened in 2016 and 2018, with participants including Turnbull, former Director of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, and principals from both states’ broader cyber and policy community. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 11:32 am by Anne Joseph O'Connell
President Trump finally submitted a nomination for secretary to the Senate late last week, the first since Kirstjen Nielsen departed in April 2019. [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 2:06 pm by Tia Sewell
The complaint alleges that Murphy was repeatedly instructed by DHS officials including Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli to modify intelligence in a way that suited President Trump’s political interests. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 2:32 pm by Tia Sewell
” And, as the committee's letter describes, “the complaint alleges that then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen provided in congressional testimony on December 20, 2018 and March 6, 2019, inaccurate and highly inflated claims of known or suspected terrorists entering the United States through the southwest border, which the complaint states constituted a ‘knowing and deliberate submission of false material information. [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 5:04 am
Under a parade of Trump and Miller bootlickers – Kirstjen Nielsen, Virginia’s own Ken Cuccinelli, and Chad Wolf, USCIS was run into the ground. [read post]