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Kirstjen Nielsen

United States 6th Secretary of Homeland Security

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Nov 20, 2025
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Were there specific court cases finding constitutional or statutory due process violations by ICE under Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen or Acting officials?

Federal courts and district judges have, in multiple cases and consent decrees, found that ICE or DHS practices violated constitutional or statutory protections tied to arrests, detention conditions, ...

Jan 27, 2026

Which officials signed the internal memorandum that led to the Trump administration's zero-tolerance family separation policy, and what do primary documents show?

The immediate, traceable authorship of the Trump administration’s “” enforcement posture rests on two signed internal memoranda: ’s April 6, 2018 memorandum directing federal prosecutors to criminally...