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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick Profile picture
@ReichlinMelnick
Jun 11, 2021 • 24 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
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The Uniform Regulatory Agenda is out and we now have our first OFFICIAL confirmation that the Biden administration is planning to issue its first big asylum rule through an "interim final rule," without going through notice and comment.

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I'm going to do a thread on all of the immigration-related new regulations and proposals included in the Spring 2021 Uniform Regulatory Agenda, which previews an administration's plans to create new regulations.

Here is a link to the full agenda. reginfo.gov/public/do/eAge…
Continuing on the theme of asylum, here is the Biden administration's preview of a *separate* asylum rule, that would go through notice and comment rulemaking, to follow the February 2 executive order that called on DHS and DOJ to strengthen asylum protections by regulation. Image
The Biden administration will also formally "rescind or substantively revise" two Trump regulations aimed at restricting eligibility for work permits to asylum seekers.

One is already blocked in full and the other has been partially blocked in court.

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The Biden administration will also formally rescind three Trump regulations—all currently blocked in court—that would have made it almost impossible for people to seek asylum. This includes the infamous "death to asylum" regulation.

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Moving way from asylum, the Biden administration previewed a new "public charge" rule that will likely put the more favorable old standards into regulations. This will be an "Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking," meaning they'll ask for early comment. reginfo.gov/public/do/eAge… Image
The regulatory agenda shows that the Biden administration is currently targeting August for their new regulation that would "preserve and fortify" DACA, as promised in a day one EO.

There will be a notice and comment period after the rule is proposed.

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Confirming comments that Secretary Mayorkas made at yesterday's conversation at the AILA conference, USCIS will be proposing a new fee rule this fall that rescinds the block-in-court Trump fees and proposes new fees.

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The Biden administration is also going to propose its own "specialty occupation" H-1B rule, which will also address "F-1 students who are the beneficiaries of timely filed H-1B cap-subject petitions." More details in the abstract.

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The Biden administration will also publish a rule to implement the 2020 Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act which expanded "premium processing" for USCIS benefits. The rule, which will be a final rule, will set the new fees.

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There is also a series of actions that the Biden administration will take to rescind or modify a number of Trump immigration regulations, such as:

- The DOL discretionary review rule
- The Asylum Ban 1.0 regulation
- The Asylum Ban 2.0 regulation
- The COVID Asylum Ban ImageImageImageImage
The Biden administration says that it will formally withdraw the terrible proposed rule that would have ended "duration of status" admissions for student visas and that would have targeted students from many African countries with harsher visa rules.

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The Biden administration also seeks to move ICE into the 21st century by "allow[ing] delivery bond notifications requiring obligors to present noncitizens at ICE Offices or Immigration Courts to be issued electronically."

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Moving to the State Department, looks like there will be a State Department process similar to what USCIS did that asks for comments that "identify[] barriers that impede access to immigration benefits and fair, efficient adjudication of these benefits."

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Here's one of the more technical changes I've seen yet; the Biden administration proposes to make a technical amendment to an old State Department regulation that falsely suggests consular officers could grant Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.

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The Biden administration says that it will formally rescind the 2019 State Department "public charge" rule, given that "the 2019 [interim final rule] is based on a rule that is no longer the policy of the Department of Homeland Security."

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Here's a great new rule; the Biden administration will formally publish a "temporary final rule" that allows consulates to waive in-person appearances and oath requirements for "certain repeat immigrant visa applicants." That should help clear backlogs!

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On top of that temporary final rule on the waiver of in-person appearance at consulates, the Biden administration will also add a more permanent "limited exception to the general requirement that an immigrant visa applicant appear in person."

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There are also two new planned Notices of Proposed Rulemaking on exchange visitors, entitled "Records" and "Sanctions."

There is very little detail on what these rules would do.

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On to the immigration courts! There are multiple proposals to modify or rescind Trump-era rules, such as:

- The 15-day filing rule
- The rule expanding the EOIR Director's authority
- The "no admin closure" rule
- The EOIR fee rule

3 of 4 of these are blocked in court already. ImageImageImageImage
The Biden administration will also reopen the comment period on two terrible midnight rules on motions to reopen and continuances that the Trump administration failed to get over the finish line. The goal will likely be to formally withdraw the rules after that. ImageImage
The Biden administration will also "rescind or modify" the 2019 rule on safe third country agreements that the Trump administration used to send nearly 1,000 people to Guatemala before the pandemic led to the asylum cooperative agreement being suspended.

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The Biden administration will issue an interim final rule rearranging the organizational structure of the Office of Legal Access Programs inside EOIR "to better facilitate the agency's mission." OLAP oversees legal orientation programs. reginfo.gov/public/do/eAge… Image
And that's it for new rules! There are a few parallel EOIR asylum rules that I didn't include here because they are effectively repeats of the DHS rules.

There are some lingering Trump-era rules still in the pipeline, too. I expect those to eventually be quietly withdrawn.

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BIG news from Bloomberg, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* some commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — the literal warehousing of people in converted buildings. Image
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth. Image
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.

It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo! Image
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Noem's claim is FALSE. Here is ICE's own data on the detention population among those arrested by ICE:

- 43% no criminal record (up from 6% last January)
- 29% one or more prior conviction*
- 28% one or more pending charge

*two most common are traffic and immigration offenses Image
Noem was confused by the question and defaulted to a different claim ICE makes; that 70% of people *arrested* by ICE have a prior criminal record or pending charges (also way down from January 2025).

As I've documented, that hasn't been true for MONTHS. Image
HOWEVER, total ICE arrests include thousands of people in criminal custody who are being transferred to ICE.

As of October, 2 out of 3 people arrested by ICE outside of a custodial setting, i.e. in American communities, have no criminal record. That's what Americans are seeing. Image
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Jan 13
HOLY CRAP. A real scandal; ICE sent a job offer to @LauraJedeed even though:

- A quick Google search would reveal who she was
- She hadn’t completed basic background check paperwork
- She should have failed the drug test

Signs of a total breakdown in the recruitment process. Image
Link to the article here, which lays out the entire shocking story; a full-blown job offer was extended despite @LauraJedeed never completing any of the required paperwork.
@LauraJedeed Read the rest of the article. After she submitted the drug test (that she should have failed because she's a user of legal cannabis), and despite having never submitted ANY other paperwork, ICE gave her a final job offer and a duty assignment.
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There is nothing more inimical to the principles that our country was founded on than a government official declaring that due process should be tossed aside.

Everyone is entitled to due process. Everyone. We thought it so important we wrote it into the Constitution TWICE.
Of course the Constitution doesn’t spell out what “due process” means in every context. It doesn’t do that for ANY process. That’s why we have laws passed by Congress and judicial precedent.

And in this context, there are laws, rules, and regulations that must be followed.
Those pictures are from 2018. Do you know who was president then?
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Dec 8, 2025
In every single major immigration raid so far, the MAJORITY of people arrested by DHS officers have no criminal record whatsoever — not even any traffic violations or misdemeanors.

In Washington, DC, it was 84% of all those arrested. In Los Angeles, 57%. In Illinois, 66%. Image
That is simply not true. Not only is being undocumented not a crime, but to have a criminal record requires someone to have been arrested for an offense in the past.
Neither of those offenses are relevant to the question of whether being undocumented is a crime, nor the question of whether a person who may have committed a crime for which they weren't charged can accurately be described as "having a criminal record."
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