Rob Law, a Trump administration DHS official, sent a goodbye note to staff he oversees at USCIS.

He honored himself in the email.

“In closing, I want to quote Snoop Dogg’s acceptance speech when he received a Hollywood star: I want to thank me for believing in me..."
"I want to thank me for doing all this hard work. I want to thank me for taking no days off. I wanna thank me for never quitting. [I stop here before the language gets NSFW]"

Law is the head of policy at USCIS.

He joined DHS after working at FAIR.
"Being the OP&S chief is not an easy job. I worked round the clock, days, weekends, holidays. That's what I signed up for. I did it because I cared deeply about the work. I did it because I had a clear vision of what our immigration system should look like..."
"I burned the midnight oil because I wanted to make your work produce a meaningful _final_ product. This job pushed me to the limits, physically, mentally, and even emotionally...As my final act of leadership, I step aside and say goodbye."
Law took over as policy chief for Kathy Nuebel Kovarik.

USCIS has seen a complete shift in its mission during the Trump administration as it implemented rules to restrict immigration (asylum) and make it tougher for those already in the US to gain green cards (public charge).

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18 Jan
Brutal report authored by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democratic staff on the Trump administration’s safe-third country deals:

“The White House and DHS used coercive tactics to compel the governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to sign the ACAs” Image
“Since implementation of the first ACA began over one year ago, not one of the 945 asylum seekers transferred from the United States to Guatemala has been granted asylum.”
In 2019, we wrote about how days before the agreement with Guatemala was implemented DHS was still scrambling to figure out critical details, including how those seeking protection would obtain shelter, food, and access to orientation services.

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Weird.

DHS published a new H-1B policy...on its publication page but I can't find it on the Federal Register (where you must publish for any rule to have any legal effect). Image
Strange note up top too:

"The following is the text of the final rule that was signed on Thursday, January 14, 2021 and that the Department has sent to the Federal Register for publication. For an official version, please see the version published in the Federal Register."
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15 Jan
NEW: DHS has signed agreements with multiple jurisdictions that appear to be an unusual effort to hamstring the incoming Biden administration’s goals to alter immigration policy.

They would require DHS to check in with the locals before going forward.

buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
The agreements would require the DHS to not only provide notice of immigration policy changes, but allow the jurisdictions six months to review and submit comments before the agency moves forward with any of the proposed changes, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Ken Cuccinelli, the acting second in command at DHS, signed the so-called Sanctuary For Americans First Enactment Agreement (SAFE) with the state of Arizona, Louisiana, Indiana, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina, this month.
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NEW: DOJ IG releases report on the zero tolerance policy -- aka the family separation policy -- finding that the Attorney General was the driving force behind it, failed to prepare for it, and that Jeff Sessions knew it would lead to children being separated from their fams.
Notes from US Attorneys across the country on a call that Jeff Sessions held in May 2018.

“we need to take away children; if care about kids, don’t bring them in; won’t give amnesty to kids; to people with kids” (strikethrough in original)."
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focus on increasing immigration prosecutions came at the
expense of careful and appropriate consideration of the impact of family unit prosecutions and child separations."
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14 Jan
BREAKING: The acting leader of ICE abruptly resigned on Wednesday, just two weeks into the job after the agency’s previous director also stepped down unexpectedly in December, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

More upheaval at DHS.

buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
The departure of Jonathan Fahey is the latest in a long line of resignations at ICE during the Trump administration. The agency, which has come under mounting public scrutiny for controversial policies throughout Trump’s term, has now seen six leaders come and go since 2017.
At the same time, Fahey’s resignation is symbolic of a Department of Homeland Security that has been under constant upheaval since President Donald Trump took office.
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NEW: Chad Wolf, the former acting DHS sec, ratified on Wed. a series of Trump immigration policies as an attempt to protect them from legal challenges.

Wolf is still in his position as head of DHS policy.

He was given this authority by current acting DHS Sec. Pete Gaynor.
Among the policies ratified?

Fast-track deportations by ICE, raising fees for immigration benefits, restricting asylum, and limiting work permits for asylum seekers, among others.

Here is the full list.
Here is the memo, signed by Wolf today.

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