immigration

Virtual immigration hearings during COVID could have gone better, GAO says

The pandemic created big challenges for the nation’s immigration courts, which are used to doing business in person. Inconsistent policies and a lack…

Agency Oversight

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2016, file photo, pedestrians cross into Juarez, Mexico as U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers of the Special Response Team unit, patrol the Paso del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas. The state of California is freeing up to $28 million to assist immigrants arriving at the state's border with Mexico to be released with notices to appear in court, marking a sharp contrast with other border states that have emerged as foes of President Joe Biden's immigration policies.(AP Photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre, File)

Immigration judges struggling to work through inadequate technology, pandemic, union pushback

Workforce

Sammies finalist from DHS developed technique for scanning visa applications faster

People

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Border Patrol agent E. Flores shows the shower section during a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge, Thursday, May 2, 2019, in Donna, Texas. Officials say the site will primarily be used as a temporary site for processing and care of unaccompanied migrant children and families and will increase the Border Patrol's capacity to process migrant families. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

IG: CBP’s social media policies could use an update

Federal Newscast

A young migrant waits for his turn to take a shower at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has problems with detention centers

Agency Oversight

Bicyclists ride past an inner perimeter of security fencing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, March 21, 2021, after portions of an outer perimeter of fencing were removed overnight to allow public access. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Will it ever be time for federal employees to return to their regular offices?

Congress

(AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Migrants deported from the U.S. walk into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Mexico announced that U.S. advisers on border and immigration issues will meet with Mexican officials on Tuesday to discuss migration and development in Central America, as a surge of migrants has hit the U.S. southern border. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

HHS looking for federal employees to volunteer at the southern border

Federal Newscast

Border Patrol agent Justin Castrejon looks toward where the border wall makes its way over a mountain Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, near Tecate, Calif. President Donald Trump’s reshaping of U.S. immigration policy may be most felt in his undoing of asylum. Castrejon says migrants pay $8,000 to $10,000 to be guided through the mountains and picked up by a driver once they reach a road. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

CBP creates new position to handle administrative load at Mexico border

Workforce

Lawmakers want to put defense funds President Trump used for a border wall back

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2020, file photo an American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether the Trump administration can exclude people in the country illegally from the count used for divvying up congressional seats. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Supreme Court takes up census case as other count issues loom

Workforce

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020, file photo, Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf makes an opening statement at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, a federal judge in New York ruled that Wolf assumed his position unlawfully, a determination that invalidated Wolf's suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields young people from deportation. (Greg Nash/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Judge: DHS head didn’t have authority to suspend DACA

Management

GAO nudging agencies to take care of priority recommendations

In the last couple of weeks, GAO has reissued reminders on open recommendations. It’s a long list.

Agency Oversight

Poor communication, planning led to massively underused border facility

When its Mexico border apprehensions soared last year, Customs and Border Protection hired a contractor to build a temporary detention center. It could…

Agency Oversight

Defense Department assures Congress, no more money moved to pay for border wall

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, Deputy Secretary David Norquist says it’s unlikely DoD will be asked to do another round of reprogramming in 2021, after it moved more than $7 billion to fund wall construction.

immigration

Virtual immigration hearings during COVID could have gone better, GAO says

Immigration judges struggling to work through inadequate technology, pandemic, union pushback

Sammies finalist from DHS developed technique for scanning visa applications faster

IG: CBP’s social media policies could use an update

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has problems with detention centers

Will it ever be time for federal employees to return to their regular offices?

HHS looking for federal employees to volunteer at the southern border

CBP creates new position to handle administrative load at Mexico border

Lawmakers want to put defense funds President Trump used for a border wall back

Supreme Court takes up census case as other count issues loom

Judge: DHS head didn’t have authority to suspend DACA

GAO nudging agencies to take care of priority recommendations

Poor communication, planning led to massively underused border facility

Defense Department assures Congress, no more money moved to pay for border wall

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