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Congressional Democrats Want Kelly To Brief On New Immigration Order, DHS Role

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, January 30th, 2017

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Congressional Democrats Want Kelly To Brief On New Immigration Order, DHS Role

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Democrats in the House and Senate who serve on committees that oversee the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have asked Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to brief them on his role in helping the new administration craft an executive order suspending immigration to the United States from certain countries and explain the directive.Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a letter to Kelly on Monday want a briefing from him on his department’s analysis that factored…

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