DHS – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com The Official Blog of FAIR Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:55:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 https://www.immigrationreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-IR-Favicon-100x100.png DHS – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com 32 32 Mayorkas’ New Policies Effectively Abolish ICE https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/10/13/mayorkas-moves-abolish-ice-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/10/13/mayorkas-moves-abolish-ice-immigrationreform-com/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:55:45 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=25115 During the Trump administration, progressive politicians and activists made abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a top campaign issue. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) all called on Congress to support legislation abolishing or otherwise reorganizing the responsibilities of [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/10/13/mayorkas-moves-abolish-ice-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 1 Air Biden: Confusion Over Mexico https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/20/biden-flying-migrants-to-mexico-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/20/biden-flying-migrants-to-mexico-immigrationreform-com/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2021 12:50:50 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=24920 When it comes to immigration, the Biden administration apparently doesn’t know whether it’s coming or going. Either way, the U.S. is dragging Mexico along for the ride. At Washington’s urging, Mexican authorities have flown 13,000 Central American migrants from northern Mexico cities to the country’s southern region, including 1,200 last week. Now the U.S. also [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/08/20/biden-flying-migrants-to-mexico-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 2 Biden’s Smoke and Mirrors at the Border https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/04/13/biden-dhs-funding-misses-crisis-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/04/13/biden-dhs-funding-misses-crisis-immigrationreform-com/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:27:14 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=24394 President Joe Biden wants billions of dollars to house migrant children, speed up U.S. citizenship petitions and process asylum seekers. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas applauded the “smart [plan]… to better manage the border.” Others call it more smoke and mirrors. The spending proposal allocates $52 billion for DHS, roughly the same [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/04/13/biden-dhs-funding-misses-crisis-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 1 Senate Confirms Alejandro Mayorkas as DHS Secretary https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/02/02/senate-confirms-mayorkas-dhs-head-immigrationreform-com/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 20:54:22 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=24096 By a vote of 56-43, the Senate confirmed Joe Biden’s nominee Alejandro Mayorkas as the seventh confirmed Secretary of  the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its component agencies which include Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Only six Republican senators [...]

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]]> House Homeland Security Chairman Introduces DHS Reform Bill https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/11/24/democrat-bill-dramatic-change-dhs-immigrationreform-com/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:35:29 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=23899 Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) recently introduced H.R. 8791 – the Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Reform Act. This bill would change a number of things about how the department operates, and is largely a House Democratic wish list targeting many ways that President Donald Trump and his administration used the department. If it became law, [...]

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]]> DHS Announces New Center for Countering Human Trafficking https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/10/28/dhs-center-combat-human-trafficking-immigrationreform-com/ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:44:06 +0000 https://www.immigrationreform.com/?p=23811 On October 15, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced the opening of the U.S. government’s first-ever integrated law enforcement operations center. This new center will directly target human trafficking and forced labor through federal criminal investigations, victim assistance efforts, intelligence analysis and outreach. The operation will focus on what they [...]

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