Tipton sided with the states of Texas and Louisiana, which argued that the DHS guidance is preventing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from enforcing the law.
Court documents say four members of the Secret Service have been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation.
More than 4,000 unaccompanied minors are in U.S. custody at the border, straining Homeland Security capacity. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers, “it will take time” to get under control.
The bulletin did not cite any specific threat but described “a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration.”
Wolf’s departure from the Trump administration, just days before the president’s norm-shattering term is set to come to a close, is the most recent cabinet resignation in recent days.
Matthew Masterson is speaking out days after leaving his job with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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