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28 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Anil Kalhan
First, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a vague, one-page letter to Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke informing her that DHS “should” rescind DACA because, Sessions asserted, the initiative had been “effectuated . . . [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]
13 Mar 2023, 6:10 am by Frank O. Bowman, III
The campaign to impeach Secretary Mayorkas simply gives a face and a focus to this partisan political initiative. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 5:01 am by Peter Margulies
Secretary Mayorkas explained the administration’s reasons for ending the program in two memoranda issued in June and October 2021. [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]
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]
21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that after the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, an improper succession occurred, with Kevin McAleenan taking on the position. [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]
14 Aug 2020, 11:18 am by Thomas DeLorenzo
After the departure of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, Kevin McAleenan assumed the leadership position of the agency. [read post]