Biden to name nominees to lead two key immigration agencies
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Tucson, Arizona, police chief Chris Magnus to serve as commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection and Ur Jaddou to serve as director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to four sources familiar with the selections.
Jaddou has been widely speculated as the incoming head of USCIS, which oversees the US legal immigration system. She was formerly chief counsel at the agency under President Barack Obama and led the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security transition review team.
The announcements come days after Roberta S. Jacobson, a special assistant to the President and a key official dealing with the surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border, announced plans to leave at the end of April.
Immigration: Biden to name nominees to lead two key agencies
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America is at a critical inflection point and, dare I say, reflection point. We have to decide whether the men and women responsible for trying to overturn a free and fair election, and who later helped to incite a riot and insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, will be given pardon or punishment.
Joe Biden, our incoming president, has from Day One built his campaign for the presidency around the issue of America’s soul and trying to unify her broken factions. He opened his campaign with a video quoting Thomas Jefferson’s famous refrain: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Biden made clear that the reason he was compelled to run for the presidency was because of the racial horror that unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
WASHINGTON President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday announced new White House staff members who will serve under Susan Rice, the director of his Domestic Policy Council, charging them with coordinating with federal agencies to help implement his early domestic policy agenda.
The hires include four deputy directors of the Domestic Policy Council, a special assistant and a deputy assistant. Focus areas include racial justice and equity, immigration, health care, veterans affairs and economic mobility.
In a surprise move, Biden last month named Rice – a former ambassador to the United Nations and then as his national security adviser under President Barack Obama – to lead domestic policy efforts. Rice was under consideration as Biden s vice president pick before he picked Sen. Kamala Harris last summer.