Immigration: Biden wasting no time naming officials to reverse Trump's policies
The Department of Homeland Security, largely hollowed out over the last four years, is moving with urgency to staff agencies with people who had front row seats to the hardline immigration limits rolled out under former President Donald Trump, in order to rescind them.
The department -- the third largest in the US government -- was closely tied to Trump's immigration actions and will continue to play a critical role in the coming months and years as those policies are reversed. Over recent days, the department has started to hire staff with extensive backgrounds in immigrant rights, immigration law and refugee resettlement.
"It will have a substantial difference in the ability of the department to execute because people understand what's going on," said Peter Boogaard, communications director at FWD.us and a DHS official under President Barack Obama. "The Trump administration weaponized the immigration system for four years. There's a clear understanding for many of these folks going back in what's at stake here."
Ashley Tabaddor, for example, will serve at US Citizenship and Immigration Services as its top lawyer after nearly 16 years as an immigration judge and holding various positions at the Justice Department before that.
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