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Senators Ask DEA To Stop Buying Its Way Around Civil Liberties

Plus: Senate Republicans spar over TikTok and free speech, Americans can't agree on how to cut spending, and more...

Reason

Tech sector H-1B employees’ spouses can work in US, judge says

Big technology companies won a major court victory in Washington, where a judge dismissed a suit challenging the rights of highly skilled H-1B visa holders’ spouses to work in the U.S.

Tribune News Service

Republican senators grill DHS chief over border security

WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Republicans accused Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday of having lost control of the southwest border and suggested he apologize to families who lost loved ones to fentanyl poisoning.

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Republican senators grill DHS chief over border security - Roll Call

Senate Judiciary Republicans accused Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday of having lost control of the southwest border.

Roll Call

U.S. border officials seize 900 pounds of fentanyl in first week of new trafficking crackdown

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas hailed "Operation Blue Lotus" as a "monumental shift" during a visit to the border.

Axios

Researchers Pressured Twitter To Treat COVID-19 Facts as 'Misinformation'

The latest Twitter Files shows a partnership between Stanford University researchers and government-funded organizations encouraged social media companies to police true information.

Reason

Additions to Xinjiang sanctions list a priority -US DHS official

One of the top priorities for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this year is to add more companies to a sanctions list for using forced labor in China's Xinjiang region, a senior DHS official said on Friday.

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Biden administration won’t appeal court ruling in Florida immigration case

The Biden administration has declined to appeal a decision from last week that blocks a key Department of Homeland Security program that has helped the agency relieve migrant congestion at the U.S. southern border.

Miami Herald

Border chief asks House panel to boost migrant processing

WASHINGTON — U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz told House Republicans on Wednesday that his agency needs more technology and resources, as the number of migrants arriving at the southwest border “places tremendous strain” on the system.

Tribune News Service

Border chief asks House panel to boost migrant processing - Roll Call

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz told House Republicans on Wednesday that his agency needs more technology and resources.

Roll Call

Certain Ukrainians eligible to extend their stays in the US

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that certain Ukrainians who entered the U.S. at a land border shortly after Russia’s invasion, and were given permission to stay for one year, may be eligible to remain longer in the country.

Tribune News Service

U.S. to extend humanitarian stay for Ukrainians who entered via Mexico border

The Biden administration will allow Ukrainians who entered the United States last year at the Mexico border to renew their humanitarian status, giving them continued access to government benefits like health insurance and food stamps.

Reuters

Certain Ukrainians eligible to extend their stays in the US - Roll Call

The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that certain Ukrainians in the U.S. may be eligible to remain longer in the country.

Roll Call

What we've learnt from nine weeks of Robodebt royal commission hearings

More than 100 witnesses, including two former prime ministers, have faced the Robodebt inquiry and sworn to tell the truth.

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The Guardian - AU

Robodebt: five years of lies, mistakes and failures that caused a $1.8bn scandal

The royal commission ended on Friday, having heard shocking testimony from officials and politicians, and heart-rending accounts of the impact of the botched scheme

Miami Herald

US defends deportations to Haiti before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Biden administration officials Thursday defended the government’s immigration policies toward Haitian migrants, including the deportation and repatriation of individuals back to the volatile Caribbean nation despite its spiraling violence and deepening humanitarian crisis.

ABC News

Robodebt royal commission hears former ombudsman who investigated the scheme allowed DHS to amend wording of report

The royal commission into the unlawful debt-raising scheme heard the department responsible for the Coalition-era program – the Department of Human Services — was allowed to submit notes on a final report into Robodebt.

Reason

DHS Just Turned 20. It's Time To Abolish It.

Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments.

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Tribune News Service

Biden immigration discussions rile Hispanic Democratic lawmakers

WASHINGTON — Hispanic Democrats in the Senate expressed optimism last month about the Biden administration’s direction on immigration and border policy, after what several described as a “constructive” and “productive” meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at the Capitol.

Tribune News Service

How North Texans have helped ‘hug Ukraine,’ evacuees in year since war began

THE COLONY, Texas -- On a Saturday afternoon, the parking lot at St. Sophia’s Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church was full.

ABC News

Top bureaucrat who oversaw Robodebt rollout says document to ministers was potentially misleading

Kathryn Campbell tells the Robodebt royal commission that a document put to Cabinet failed to mention the need for legislative change.

The Guardian - AU

Robodebt: top bureaucrat admits ‘significant oversight’ led to cabinet being misled

Former department head Kathryn Campbell rejects suggestions at inquiry that oversight was deliberate or government ministers had pressured her

Salon

DHS running "shady" U.S. spy program

Report obtained by Politico reveals a nearly unknown, potentially illegal domestic intelligence operation

Tribune News Service

Biden administration urges judge to allow latest ‘Dreamers’ rule

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has urged a Texas federal judge to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in a case that threatens protections for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.

Roll Call

Biden administration urges judge to allow latest 'Dreamers' rule - Roll Call

The Biden administration urged a Texas federal judge on Thursday to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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