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Nov 29 2022
News
Supreme Court hears Texas’ challenge to Biden immigration and deportation policies
The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the Biden administration’s authority to prioritize which non-citizens to deport when hearing a challenge brought by two Republican state attorneys general who say the Department of Homeland Security is skirting federal immigration law.
The justices were considering three distinct issues in the case, which opens the door to shifting majorities.
CNN (Online News)
Nov 29 2022
News
Biden Admin Makes The Case For Deporting Fewer Illegals To The Supreme Court
The Biden administration on Tuesday defended its push to deport fewer illegal immigrants before the Supreme Court.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced in September 2021 new priorities for deportations that limited illegal migrant apprehensions and removals to risks to national security, public safety and border security. Texas and Louisiana sued
The Daily Caller
Nov 19 2022
News
Republicans identify 42 Biden administration officials they want to testify
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday identified 42 employees from Democratic President Joe Biden's White House and administration, who they expect to testify next year after their party takes control of the chamber.
In Nov. 18 letters to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain and other top administration officials, 19 Republican members of the House Judiciary
Reuters
Mar 21 2021
News
Homeland Security Secretary Says ‘Border Is Closed’ but U.S. Won’t Expel ‘Vulnerable Children’
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday underscored the Biden administration’s messaging to migrants that the southern border is closed, though he noted that it would not expel “vulnerable children.”
Mayorkas’s comments came in response to a question by Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Press regarding whether the administration had created a “market efficiency
National Review
Nov 17 2022
Analysis
Inside the White House’s months of prep-work for a GOP investigative onslaught
More than four months before voters handed Republicans control of the House of Representatives, top White House and Department of Homeland Security officials huddled in the Roosevelt Room to prepare for that very scenario.
The department and its secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, had emerged as top targets of Republican ire over the Biden administration’s border security policies – ire
CNN (Online News)
Nov 21 2022
News
GOP demands prosecution data from Biden administration, says border jumpers should face charges
House Republicans demanded data Monday from the Biden administration on the number of border jumpers who are being prosecuted as illegal immigrants, saying they suspect the administration has been lax in using a key tool to stem illegal immigration.
In a letter, shared first with The Washington Times, Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, and 13 other GOP lawmakers prodded Attorney
Washington Times
Dec 08 2022
News
First Gen Z Congressman Denied DC Apartment Over 'Really Bad' Credit
The first congressman-elect from Generation Z said on Thursday that he was denied an apartment in Washington, D.C., over his "really bad" credit.
Maxwell Alejandro Frost, who is set to take the seat of Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., tweeted that he told his potential landlord that his credit was poor as he applied. He was then told it would be "fine" but was ultimately denied.
He said
Newsmax (News)
Nov 24 2020
News
First Latino tapped to head DHS signals shift from Trump's hard-line immigration policies
Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Latino chosen for President-elect Joe Biden's Cabinet, will head a Department of Homeland Security that is expected to drastically overhaul President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, as well as put Mayorkas at the forefront of the new administration’s anti-terrorism strategy.
Mayorkas will be the first Latino and first immigrant to head the
NBC News (Online)
Nov 24 2020
News
Biden selects architect of DACA to lead DHS
Presumed President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Monday he wants Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security Department, tapping an Obama-era mainstay who helped create the DACA program that protected “Dreamers,” but was also part of the team that expanded family detention.
Mr. Mayorkas, born in Cuba, would be the first Hispanic person and first immigrant to head the department,
Washington Times
Nov 18 2022
Opinion
Team Biden must stop gaslighting on ‘secure’ border as crisis is about to get drastically worse
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week again told Congress, “yes,” the border is secure, “and we are working day in and day out to enhance security.” We do not think that word means what he thinks it means.
And the impending end of Title 42, which Team Biden has used to expel more than 1 million of the 2.4 million migrants that the Border Patrol “encountered” last
New York Post (News)