Who is Tracey Bardorf?
John Morton, the assistant secretary for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, last summer brought on the relatively young former federal prosecutor to be his special adviser for Mexico and border matters.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICE to stop detaining asylum seekers
The government will generally no longer detain asylum seekers who arrive at U.S. border crossings, airports and other entry points who have a credible fear of persecution or torture in their home country as long as they meet certain requirements, immigration officials announced today.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Homeland Security Department's investigative arm and the agency responsible for immigration detention, will put the policy into place starting Jan. 4, according to an ICE press release.
Obama administration preparing for immigration reform ... or shuffling the deck?
In another sign that the Obama administration is preparing for — or at least thinking about — sweeping reforms of the nation's broken immigration system, the agency that polices the nation's immigration laws has created a new position to work on issues related to possible new legislation.
John W. Salter, who previously ran the Los Angeles legal office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was recently named to the newly created post of ICE Special Counsel for Legal Affairs, ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley confirmed in an email to the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Second immigration official leaves new federal office
A second high-ranking official in a two-month-old federal office that oversees immigration detention policy and planning has left the government, sources say.
Cree Zischke, tasked with addressing detainee health care issues for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Detention Policy and Planning, departed just weeks after her boss, Dr. Dora Schriro, left ICE in late September to become commissioner of New York City's jails.
