5. Department of Homeland Security · Minor
Strip CRCL of its immigration portfolio by directive
Printed page 166 5. Department of Homeland Security
“If OIDO remains a DHS component, the Secretary should immediately issue a directive stripping CRCL of its immigration portfolio.”
What has happened
- Not started
No directive stripping CRCL of its immigration portfolio was issued or announced. CRCL's complaint program, which is how the immigration portfolio is exercised in practice, is still running: DHS submitted the CRCL Complaint and Privacy Waiver Form for renewed OMB clearance on 2026-07-22 with no carve-out for immigration matters.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Not started, on the one negative search we ran for the asks on CRCL, the Privacy Office and the two ombudsmen. The Quote is conditional on OIDO remaining a DHS component; OIDO is dark but not abolished (#445), so the condition is at least arguably live and the ask is researched on its own terms.
- A CRCL directives page, found 2026-09-03 and not yet opened. DHS’s complete public sitemap was listed for #447 — 14 child sitemaps, 6,801 unique URLs, all of which open — and it contains https://www.dhs.gov/publication/crcl-directives-and-delegations, a CRCL directives and delegations page we have not opened. It may bear on this ask; nothing is claimed from it. Note also that DHS’s publications-library search silently discards its query string and redirects to the generic publications index, so any earlier negative taken from that search is unreliable in both directions; the press-release search does honor its query string.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- CRCL immigration portfolio
- ID
- 446