Showing posts with label Department of Homeland Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Department of Homeland Security. Show all posts
Thursday, April 17, 2025

USCIS Is Screening Immigration Applicants for Antisemitic Activity

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Last week (April 9), the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will begin screening the social media of aliens applying for immi...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Churches Lack Standing to Challenge Rescission of DHS's Sensitive Locations Policy

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In Mennonite Church USA v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security , (D DC, April 11, 2025), the D.C. federal district court, in a suit by 27 ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Court Preliminarily Enjoins Enforcement Against Plaintiffs of New Guidelines for Immigration Raids at Churches

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In Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security ,  (D MD, Feb. 24, 2025), a Maryl...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

27 Religious Denominational Groups Sue DHS Over Rescission of Sensitive Locations Policy

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Yesterday, 27 Christian and Jewish denominational bodies and organizations filed suit in a D.C. federal district court challenging the resci...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Quaker Organizations Sue Over New Immigration Enforcement Policy

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Yesterday three organizations of Quaker congregations along with two individual congregations filed suit in a Maryland federal district cour...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

White House Summarizes Recent Initiatives to Combat Antisemitism and Islamophobia at Schools and Colleges

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The White House yesterday issued a  Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Takes Action to Address Alarming Rise of Reported Antisemitic a...
Friday, September 29, 2023

8 Federal Agencies Clarify When Title VI Bars Discrimination Related to Religion

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The White House announced yesterday that eight federal agencies have "clarified—for the first time in writing—that Title VI of the Civ...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Religious Questioning Of Muslim Travelers By Border Officers Upheld

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In Kariye v. Mayorkas , (CD CA, Oct. 12, 2022), three Muslim plaintiffs sued the Department of Homeland Security alleging that border office...
Friday, March 25, 2022

DHS Issues New Interim Final Rule On Asylum Application Procedures

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Yesterday, in a 512-page Release ( full text ), the Department of Homeland Security adopted an Interim Final Rule (IFR) on procedures for de...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Expedited Asylum Procedures Proposed By DOJ and DHS

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The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice announced yesterday that they are publishing a 140-page Notice of Propose...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

DOJ Proposes Changes In Asylum Procedures

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The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced yesterday that they have submitted to the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed R...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Head of DHS Faith Based Office Resigns Over Anti-Muslim, Anti-Black Statements

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CNN reports  that Rev. Jamie Johnson resigned yesterday as head of the Department of Homeland Security's Center for Faith-Based & N...
Monday, July 03, 2017

Trump Administration Modifies List of Grants For Combating Violent Extremism

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As reported by CNN , the Department of Homeland Security on June 23 announced  26 organizations that have been approved for awards under the...