Immigration
Jan. 26, 2024
Former Homeland Security chief can be questioned about family separation
“Given the abundance of evidence produced, in this case and in related litigation, indicating that the actual intent of the Zero Tolerance Policy was to separate families to deter illegal immigration,” the bad faith element required to justify deposing former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is met, U.S. Magistrate Judge Kandis A. Westmore wrote in her order Wednesday.
Three Bay Area families suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy can depose the agency’s former secretary, a federal judge in Oakland ruled.
However, the judge said the plaintiffs must modify their subpoena order to require a written deposition rather than an oral deposition. “As Secretary Nielsen acknowledged at the [motion to quash] hearing, deposition by written ...
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