Homeland Chief Skirts Courts, Seeks to Ratify Visa, Asylum Rules

Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, moved to ratify a slate of measures laid out by his predecessor, Kevin McAleenan, brushing aside recent court rulings that said it was likely that both men improperly served in that role.

A Department of Homeland Security notice, signed by Wolf Oct. 7 and scheduled for publication in Friday’s Federal Register, purports to affirm a number of previous actions by McAleenan, who served as acting secretary immediately after the April 2019 resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen—the last Senate-confirmed person to lead the department—and one previous action by U. S. Citizenship and ...