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”
“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.

google.com/amp/s/www.buzz…
Right around the time the deal was implemented US immigration were provided materials detailing the dangers faced by those in Guatemala, including gangs, violence, and killings with “high levels of impunity.” google.com/amp/s/www.buzz…
Here’s the Senate report: foreign.senate.gov/download/cruel…

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20 Jan
NEW: DHS sent Capitol Hill the unusual agreements it signed with local jurisdictions apparently aimed at undercutting Biden's immigration goals.

They confirmed the agreements we reported on & others w/ the states of Texas, Montana, Alabama, West Virginia, and South Carolina.
More on what it these agreements say. They are all nearly identical and appear aimed at providing these localities with standing to SUE in federal court once Biden moves forward with his immigration changes.

buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
Experts have questioned the legality of these agreements, which are very unusual (the experts were very confused and had never heard of this type of thing before).
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20 Jan
NEW: US officials admitted in court that they violated a judge’s order when 32 immigrant children were expelled to Guatemala, adding that they will begin the process of getting the group back.

BuzzFeed News first revealed the flight's existence in Nov.

buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
The offer to return the group to the US is a dramatic turn in a months-long saga over the Nov. 18 flight to Guatemala, which occurred shortly after US Judge Sullivan blocked the Trump administration from turning back unaccompanied children immediately.
An ICE deportation official, Evan Katz, confirmed in the filing that the agency had sought Guatemalan approval to return most of the children to the US, many of whom re-boarded the plane as part of the process.
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17 Jan
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..."
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15 Jan
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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14 Jan
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)."
"We concluded that the Department’s single-minded
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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