Foreign Policy and National Security
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The acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement trumpeted changes to the agency’s enforcement strategy in an annual report released Friday that showed year-over-year declines in immigration arrests and deportations… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A bipartisan government spending bill unveiled Wednesday would increase funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, while leaving out extra legal aid funding for immigrants and cuts to immigration detention resources sought by advocates… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Newly surfaced domestic violence allegations could derail President Joe Biden’s choice of Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez of Texas to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with a high-ranking Republican senator seeking to halt the nomination process over the allegations… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Biden administration can continue to use a pandemic-related order to quickly expel certain migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, but it can’t send them to countries where they risk torture or severe persecution, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Texas’ Operation Lone Star border security initiative has expanded over the past year despite courtroom setbacks revealing cracks in its legal foundation, and it appears poised to grow further unless the federal government steps in to confront it… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 