More than 1,000 federal immigration officials are being deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border to conduct virtual interviews of immigrants who illegally crossed the border and made a claim of asylum.
Up to 1,200 government employees, including those tasked with the Biden administration’s effort to reunite families who had been separated at the border under the Trump administration, will be pulled from their normal jobs at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and put on a mandatory 60-day deployment to the southern border, according to a report by the Washington Times on Tuesday.
Officers from across the Department of Homeland Security’s USCIS agency began a weeklong training this week ahead of two-month deployments, which could start on May 11. Read more…
