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6 Dec 2017, 11:28 am by Garrett Hinck
The Senate confirmed Kirstjen Nielsen as Secretary of Homeland Security in a 62-37 vote, the Post reported. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 10:53 am by William Ford
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen informed the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday that only 20 of 150 state and local election officials have the security clearances they need to receive election security intelligence, Axios reports. [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]
30 Aug 2018, 6:29 am by Stephanie Leutert, Caitlyn Yates
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen released a statement that month saying that the Department of Homeland Security “encourages persons with asylum or other similar claims to seek protections in the first safe country they enter, including Mexico. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 11:07 am by Amy Howe
But in this case Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, considered the reliance interests “quite clearly and explicitly” but concluded that they didn’t justify retaining a program that violated the law. [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]
21 Sep 2018, 2:51 pm by Brian Shyr
The Business Roundtable sent a letter to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen expressing concern “about changes in immigration policy that are causing considerable anxiety for many thousands of our employees while threatening to disrupt company operations. [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 2:27 pm by Enrique Maciel-Matos
The proposal has not yet been approved by Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen. [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]
14 Apr 2019, 5:30 am by Gene Takagi
Notable Events of the Week: “President Trump announced Sunday that Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as secretary of homeland security, marking the exit of a second top immigration official in a matter of days as the White House continues to grapple with an influx of migrants on the southern border. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 2:52 pm by Ben Berwick, Rachel Homer
When Nielsen resigned, therefore, Executive Order 13753 still governed the order of succession. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 9:30 pm by Bobby Chen
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen previously justified the termination by reportedly saying that she was bound by law to do so and that it was “Congress’s job” to give permanent status to those covered. [read post]
19 Jul 2020, 9:07 pm by Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer
Nine months later, then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen issued the second memo—the Nielson memo—in response to an order by a federal district court asking DHS for further explanation about the decision to rescind DACA. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 9:45 am by J. Dana Stuster
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is due to decide whether or not to renew the status, which has been in effect since September 2015, by the end of the week. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 2:00 pm
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) wrote to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asking her to arrest, detain, and criminally prosecute all parents arriving at our border with their children — a move that will likely prosecute asylum seekers and separate thousands of families. [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 9:00 am by Chinmayi Sharma
The original memorandum required Defense Secretary James Mattis, in consultation with the secretary of homeland security (now Kirstjen Nielsen), to provide the president with an “implementation plan” for the order by Feb. 21. [read post]
31 Jul 2018, 3:30 pm
Maybe Jeff Sessions and Kirstjen Nielsen’s underlings forced Laura into the Sophie’s choice of choosing to be deported with her son or to be separated from him. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 1:00 pm
Kirstjen Nielsen, the Secretary of Homeland Security, has further claimed that the policy will deter people who seek to “game the system” and make fake asylum claims so they can “disappear into the United States. [read post]