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Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO: Border Patrol's Migrant Death Program is Missing Data
GAO, Apr. 20, 2022 "Border Patrol has not collected and recorded, or reported to Congress, complete data on migrant deaths, or disclosed associated data limitations. Specifically, Border Patrol’s fiscal year 2020 report to Congress did not...
Daniel M. Kowalski
10 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO: USCIS Should Address Growing Caseload
GAO, August 2021; released Sept. 17, 2021 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services processes millions of applications and petitions from noncitizens who want to temporarily stay or live in the country, obtain work authorization, or become U.S...
Daniel M. Kowalski
11 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO Critiques EOIR
GAO, Aug. 31, 2021 - COVID-19: Improvements Needed in Guidance and Stakeholder Engagement for Immigration Courts "The Department of Justice's (DOJ) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) took steps to modify immigration court operations...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
GAO: Biden's Border Wall Pause OK
GAO Decision, June 15, 2021 "On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued a Proclamation terminating a previous declaration of national emergency concerning the southern border of the United States issued by President Trump. Among other things,...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO on ICE, 287(g) Agreements
GAO, Feb. 26, 2021 "Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) met its goal to expand the 287(g) program. However, ICE has not established performance goals that cover all program activities...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO Faults ORR on Care of UACs
GAO, Oct. 7, 2020 "The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) grant announcements soliciting care providers for unaccompanied children—those without lawful immigration status and without a parent or guardian in the U.S. available to...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO Report Slams CBP Over Border Deaths, Medical Care of Detainees, Use of Funds
SOUTHWEST BORDER: CBP Needs to Increase Oversight of Funds, Medical Care, and Reporting of Deaths "Three children died in U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s custody in fiscal year 2019, prompting questions about medical care in the agency’s...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO Slaps CBP for $3.5M Border Tent Boondoggle
GAO, Apr. 9, 2020 "BORDER SECURITY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Management of a Temporary Facility in Texas Raised Concerns about Resources Used The number of people U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended on the southwest...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO: Feds Must Do Better on Credible Fear
GAO, Feb. 2020 Actions Needed to Strengthen USCIS’s Oversight and Data Quality of Credible and Reasonable Fear Screenings
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
GAO Report: Immigration-Related Prosecutions Increased from 2017 to 2018 in Response to U.S. Attorney General's Direction
GAO, Dec. 3, 2019 "In 2017 and 2018, the Attorney General directed federal prosecutors to prioritize prosecutions of immigration-related offenses such as improper entry, illegal reentry after a prior removal, and alien smuggling. We reviewed...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
ICE Failed to Follow Policies on Noncitizen Veterans: GAO Report
Maria Ines Zamudio, WBEZ, June 7, 2019 "Hundreds of noncitizen veterans were placed in removal proceedings during the past six years despite policies to consider their service in deportation cases and to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 3 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Policy Surprised Agencies, GAO Report Finds
Ron Nixon, New York Times, Oct. 24. 2018 - "The Trump administration did not tell key government agencies about its “zero tolerance” immigration policy before publicly announcing it in April, leaving the officials responsible for carrying...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 6 years ago
Immigration Law
News Headlines
USCIS Needs to Transform its Transformation Program: GAO Report
GAO, July 15, 2016 - "GAO is making 12 recommendations to improve Transformation Program management, including ensuring alignment among policy, guidance, and leading practices in areas such as Agile software development and systems integration and...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 6 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
GAO: DHS Final Rule re F-1 STEM OPT OK
GAO, Mar. 28, 2016 - "Enclosed is our assessment of DHS’s compliance with the procedural steps required by section 801(a)(1)(B)(i) through (iv) of title 5 with respect to the rule. Our review of the procedural steps taken indicates that, with...
Jenner & Block Corporate Environmental Lawyer
over 7 years ago
Environmental
Clean Air and Clean Water
GAO Finds EPA Needs to Better Protect Drinking Water from Fracking Activities
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report entitled “ Drinking Water: EPA Program to Protect Underground Sources from Injection of Fluids Associated with Oil and Gas Production Needs Improvement ,” in which the GAO...
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