During the transition, do you think DHS officials are going to say things like: "Here's how we're still separating families, where we are spending the money for imprisoned immigrant food and health care, how we're blocking asylum applicants, how we pick journalists to target...
"Here's how we target Muslims for additional screening, put Yemenis in 'administrative processing' to drop their visa apps, oh, we gave all premium processing fees to this contractor for this failed online system. Oh, and we secretly changed the H-1B standards over here...
"Look, here's the dumpster for initial DACA apps that we dumped in violation of SCOTUS. Let me show you how we arrest "illegals" living in homes in CA w/o any evidence they crossed the border (just call them human smugglers!), here's how we invent evidence of 'gang ties"...
"Oh yeah, remember the State Department country condition reports? Here's how we make their countries seem better than they are. Important to know how to do that to block asylum seekers. Here's how we move migrants around to avoid OIG audits of overcrowded prisons...
"Here's how the review process works for all department reports: anything that makes immigrants look good is suppressed. Anything that makes immigrants look bad is reported immediately without fact-checking....
"Reports of detainee abuse go in this shredder over here. Use of force reports get redacted and edited over here. Deaths in custody stay secret until we know what the evidence says...." This is all important info to know if you want a "smooth transition"
I'm only 50% kidding about this stuff. Most of these hypotheticals are based on actual known facts of what DHS has been doing. justsecurity.org/72451/whistleb…
CBP Separated More Asylum-Seeking Families at Ports of Entry Than Reported and for Reasons Other Than Those Outlined in Public Statements oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/… 
A Customs and Border Protection official confirmed that the agency had launched investigations of journalists and immigrant rights advocates on the border. theintercept.com/2019/05/17/bor…
Border Patrol spent food money for migrants on dog food gao.gov/assets/710/708…
"smuggling accusations are increasingly being used as a pretext for immigration arrests." buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfo…
The State Department edited its human rights reports to remove references to violence against women so the US could deport women back to violent countries. "The 2017 Report is not a human rights report at all." asylumist.com/2018/05/02/dis…
ICE claimed a Dreamer was “gang-affiliated” and tried to deport him. A federal judge ruled that ICE was lying. slate.com/news-and-polit…
The White House stopped publication of a study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost. nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/…
Despite agency denials, the memo shows that a Customs and Border Protection office ordered agents to question Iranian Americans after Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani's death. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
"At least 700 more families have been separated since the administration said it was ending its inhumane policy." nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
“We’re seeing denials on applications that we’ve gotten approved for the last 20 years,” said @wstock215, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. sfchronicle.com/business/artic…
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