5. Department of Homeland Security · Minor
Bar USCIS staff from being pulled onto DACA and mass parole programs
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“Management Directives and policies should realign to ensure that the workforce, while adaptable and able to handle the bulk of the USCIS mission, is not allowed to be pulled off mission work to focus on unlawful programs (DACA, mass parole for Afghans, Ukrainians, Venezuelans, etc.), which divert resources away from nuclear family and employment programs.”
What has happened
- Partially done
DHS terminated the family reunification parole processes for Colombians, Cubans, Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, Haitians, Hondurans and Salvadorans. Two of the three program families the Quote names are gone. It stays `partial`: DACA continues to be administered by USCIS, and no directive protects the nuclear-family and employment caseloads from future diversion.
- Partially done
DHS terminated the parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, the largest of the categorical parole programs the Quote names, ending the adjudication workload they generated. The management directives and workforce realignment the Quote asks for were not issued; the caseload simply stopped.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
The Quote’s object is the diversion of USCIS staff onto DACA and mass parole programs. The administration removed the diversion by ending the programs rather than by issuing the management directive the Quote describes — achievement by another instrument, so partial with the alternative reading noted.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- USCIS staffing of DACA and mass parole programs
- ID
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