DHS approved DACA applications in violation of judge's orderDreamers have been told to disregard their approvalsBy Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Friday, July 30, 2021Homeland Security approved at least nine new DACA applications and advanced dozens of others in violation of a judge’s order pausing work on much of the program, department officials admitted in court filings this week.
Tracy Renaud, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, blamed “human error” and cases already in the system for the breaches.
She said the agency has rushed to claw back the approvals from the Dreamers who were approved in violation of the order, and has halted the applications of 52 other Dreamers who were allowed to submit biometrics for their applications — also a breach of Judge Andrew S. Hanen’s order.
All of the breaches took place from July 17 to July 19, in the days immediately following Judge Hanen’s ruling that the DACA program, created by the Obama administration in 2012, was formed illegally.
Ms. Renaud said the agency is now regularly scouring its system to try to detect other applications that have slipped through, but no other ones have been found.
“USCIS believes that the technological and systematic solutions described … will provide a stop gap to prevent the issuance of new initial DACA grants,” she told Judge Hanen.
“The government regrets the error,” Justice Department lawyers added in their own filing with the judge.
Ms. Renaud said of the nine full approvals, one was caught before documents went out the door. The other eight people will get notices telling them the government goofed and the deportation amnesty they thought they’d won is actually invalid.
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