The US Justice Department has picked a new top lawyer at the office responsible for investigating immigration-related employment bias, according to people familiar with the move.
Alberto Ruisanchez, the longtime chief of DOJ’s Immigrant and Employee Rights section, has been replaced by Jennifer Deines, previously special policy counsel at IER, who will fill the top spot on an acting basis.
Ruinsanchez’s departure was connected to a re-assignment to the Trump administration’s new sanctuary city task force, although it wasn’t clear if he would remain at the agency.
The office is charged with enforcing antidiscrimination provisions of the Immigration and Nationality ...
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