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Biden Names Transition Team For DHS, Led By Immigrant Rights Advocate

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020

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Biden Names Transition Team For DHS, Led By Immigrant Rights Advocate

Ur Jaddou, director of DHS Watch and lead for President-elect Joe Biden's DHS transition team. Photo: America's Voice

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his transition teams for the federal agencies, including the agency review team for the Department of Homeland Security that will be led by Ur Jaddou, a former chief counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during the last three years of the Obama administration and the director of DHS Watch, which advocates for immigrants’ rights. All of the 22 DHS transition team members are serving on a volunteer basis, according to the incoming…

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