Those of us currently in this position are very upset about this. We are not immigration enforcement and are a pretty diverse group, including many naturalized immigrants. Most of us are in the job because we wanted to help people immigrate to the US.

Hopefully it's comforting to know that, apparently everyone in my current division who holds this position finds this title stupid and disgusting and an insult to our work, will refuse to use the title, and plan to refuse to use it for any new hires under this announcement too.

People refuse to believe there are vanishingly few exceptions that allow people who entered illegally to stay in the US, no matter their value to the community. The pathway simply does not exist for many people, and this is due to the laws our representatives have passed.

People who work in immigration in the feds are begging folks to understand this. We are in this situation because of political gridlock over immigration for years. We are working with outdated laws with few "loopholes" to offer waivers to the kind of people many believe should be allowed to stay.

USCIS officers have always been required to notify ICE if someone with an outstanding removal order comes in. What has changed is that ICE almost never bothered to come pick people up who didn't have a criminal record. Now they come for everyone, no matter what path they have to remain.

Could definitely still be taken into consideration if it was serious and yeah, would involveresearching a wholeother legal code

I tell my friends, my family...but it's hard for people to understand how arcane the law is and how punitive the letter of some of the actual laws are. Then someone comes along to enforce them for maximum shock value, taking discretion away from federal officials, and we get what's happening now.

Immigration officers often have to consult the in house counsel to help them determine what is a CIMT, because it can change based on the state, language of the law and the date the law was violate. Not all felonies are CIMTs, for example. Simple DUI is not a CIMT.

Well, this will be a nightmare. They all likely have less training in immigration law than the greenest clerk at USCIS or the newest member of Border Patrol

As a fed I have this inner discussion almost every day. Right now I'm afraid whoever they'd hire to replace me would break the law. I'm a religious person and feel like I'm here for a reason right now, as long as I can hold out. I took an oath and am trying my best to uphold it.

how they expect USCIS to conduct hundreds of thousands of roving interviews (with what time? What security? What money?) I have no idea

No matter what someone yells at you in your capacity as a federal employee you can't retort with a partisan comment on duty time and in your official position. I've been yelled at and never have been tempted to say something like this....so embarrassing to all federal employees

As a federal employee my mouth fell open. We can NOT be partisan...I don't care what a member of the public says to me, I can't make a partisan statement on official time and as a representative of the US civil service. What the actual hell

This is absolutely horrifying to the vast majority of us who process and approve the various types of cases based on refugee claims. But no one is listening to us, it's all disgusting top down decisions.

We are not a red state, there are millions of Democrats here that he would like to silence so he never gets challenged on his lawless BS

It has been so sad for us who grant immigration benefits to see how terrified people are. We have to spend extra time talking people down to be calm enough to get what they need.

What an absolute insult to all the (many) nonwhite employees at DHS. Leadership should be ashamed

Some of the laws with penalties like this were passed back in the 80s and 90s--we're still operating under them because no one has passed large-scale changes since.

most people don't know that officers who make decisions on these applications have to train for literal years to handle the most complicated ones. Cases still come in that require decisions based on legalization laws with a cut-off date in the 70s

They're the favorite part of what is sometimes a very rough job for most USCIS field officers!