Posted on November 4, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
McAleenan resigned as acting Secretary for DHS, but has stayed while the White House has tried to find a replacement. President Trump told reporters on Friday that he planned to install Chad Wolf as acting Secretary for DHS. The White House later reported that Wolf will take over McAleenan’s role on November 12. Wolf currently serves as undersecretary for policy at DHS, though he was never confirmed by the Senate. Wolf fulfills the legal requirements because because he held a position for more than 90 days under Nielsen, the last Senate-confirmed DHS secretary.
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Posted on January 28, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
DHS released information about the Migrant Protection Protocols it has begun implementing at the U.S.-Mexico border, whereby certain foreign nationals entering from Mexico may be returned to wait outside the United States for the duration of their immigration proceedings
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Posted on November 29, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
DOL published a proposed rule for the H-2A visa program and, jointly with DHS, a proposed rule for the H-2B visa program to modernize recruitment requirements for both programs by replacing the currently required newspaper advertisements with electronic advertisements.
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Posted on August 28, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Complaint Details Coercive Tactics Used by Immigration Officials on Separated Parents and what can be done
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Posted on June 6, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
DHS’s announcementthat an additional 15,000 H-2B visas will be available for the remainder of FY2018. An advance copy of the temporary rule increasing the H-2B cap has been made available to the public. The temporary rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register this Thursday, May 31, 2018.
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Posted on October 3, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Touting national security concerns, President Trump has been swiftly implementing burdensome, ineffective, and unnecessary policies through executive actions and memoranda, including implementing several travel bans on Muslim-majority countries and refugees, and now requiring USCIS to conduct in-person interviews for people who have already been thoroughly vetted. Federal agencies like DHS and DOS are not being transparent about how these immigration policies are being developed and administered, leaving individuals and businesses in the dark about how they will be impacted
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Posted on May 1, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Posted on March 1, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Associated Press published a leaked draft of a DHS intelligence report that found that country of citizenship is “unlikely to be a reliable indicator of potential terrorist activity,” and that few people from the seven Muslim-majority countries President Trump listed in his January 27, 2017, travel ban have been involved in terrorism-related activities in the United States since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011. DHS did not dispute the report’s authenticity, but said that the report was “incomplete” and was not a final comprehensive review of the government’s intelligence. As reported in the Immigration Politics Ticker, President Trump is expected to sign a new travel ban on Wednesday—a day after his first address to a joint session of Congress.
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Posted on February 28, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Aligning the Department’s Privacy Policies with the Law. The Department will no longer afford Privacy Act rights and protections to persons who are neither U.S. citizens nor lawful permanent residents. This is one area that is highly questionable. The DHS Secretary cannot simply state that a person who is not a resident or citizen will no longer have privacy rights. He does not have the authority to contradict the U.S. Constitution
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Posted on December 23, 2016 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Where the Department of Homeland Security seeks to re-serve a respondent to effect proper service of a notice to appear that was defective under the regulatory requirements for serving minors under the age of 14, a continuance should be granted for that purpose. Matter of E-S-I-, 26 I&N Dec. 136 (BIA 2013), followed.
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