Exclusive: US Department of Homeland Security banned staff from talking to Congress about immigratio

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WRITTEN BY Heather Timmons at Quartz

https://qz.com/1181086/trumps-dhs-is-barring-its-immigration-experts-from-speaking-to-congress/

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Congress is scrambling to put together a bipartisan immigration bill that will allow 700,000 residents who came to the US as children to remain legally in coming weeks, and could impact migration to the country for generations to come.

But the top US government experts on the issue have been barred from speaking to members of Congress in recent days, potentially limiting the information lawmakers can get on issues like effectiveness of border walls or links between immigrants and crime.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Legislative Affairs office sent an email on Jan. 9 to top officials at the agency, informing them that “all operating component meetings on immigration are cancelled,” according to someone with a copy of the email who read it to Quartz. They were cancelled “on behalf of the front office,” the email said.

“Operating components” is US government-speak for the people and divisions who execute an agency’s policies (in this case, the Citizenship and Immigration Services, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the DHS). “The front office” means the agency head (in this case Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen)


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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. They are at war with us, they , chief traitor and friends are actively trying to harm or kill

many of us.

[gordianot]

2. At some point I expect the entire Executive Branch to shut up.

There may be a limit to self inflicted damage but I doubt we would be so lucky.