Justice Department Lawyer Set to Dismantle Trump’s Immigration Reforms

Based on early stories, Customs and Border Safety apprehended over 210,000 unlawful aliens within the month of July. The Biden administration’s insurance policies are solely in charge for this humanitarian, public well being, and nationwide safety disaster. By ending the Migrant Safety Protocols, pulling out of safe-third-country agreements with the Northern Triangle nations, reintroducing “catch and launch,” and crippling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by way of adjustments to its enforcement priorities, the Biden administration signaled to the world that the southern border is open to anybody who can get right here.

A brand new rent by the Justice Division confirms
that the Biden administration plans to double down on eviscerating immigration
enforcement.

The Biden administration tapped Lucas Guttentag, a former Obama administration senior adviser on immigration coverage, as the brand new senior counselor on immigration coverage inside the Justice Division. Based on Politico, Guttentag will “assist take aside the restrictive immigration insurance policies developed underneath former President Donald Trump.” Politico additional quotes Biden officers who indicated that his position may also contain coordinating immigration coverage and technique throughout a number of businesses and departments.

Guttentag is the previous nationwide director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Immigrants’ Rights Venture and served in that position from 1985 till 2011. In the course of the Trump administration, Guttentag was a professor at each Stanford and Yale regulation colleges. He additionally developed the “Immigration Coverage Tracker,” an interactive on-line device that highlighted the immigration coverage adjustments made in the course of the 4 years of Trump’s presidency. Guttentag catalogued 1,063 adjustments to the US’ immigration coverage underneath the Trump administration, which Guttentag sorted into seven classes: enforcement, humanitarian, non-immigrant visas, immigrant visas, citizenship, labor, and hearings and adjudications.

The Biden administration is now tasking Guttentag with reversing and dismantling many – if not all – of the 1,063 adjustments that he recognized. Like Ur Jaddou, the recently-confirmed director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Companies (USCIS), Guttentag possesses a deep data of immigration regulation and an ideological want to essentially change many features of it. Due to the arcane approach through which federal rulemaking happens, Guttentag will have the ability to drive most features of agency-level immigration coverage with out the identical public scrutiny confronted by elected lawmakers in Congress.

FAIR will monitor the actions of Guttentag
and report the adjustments that he makes in his new position because the senior counselor on
immigration coverage.