Posted on 01/21/2019 5:58:03 PM PST by caww
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has approved a request by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to reinstate 300 furloughed employees, a senior DHS official told the Washington Examiner.
The personnel have been out of work 30 days as a result of the partial government shutdown but will head back to the office Tuesday and will be paid for their work, the official said. Employees of the Immigration Records and Identity Services Directorate and other components of USCIS were notified Monday that they will be required to return to work in a day.
The group of reinstated personnel are from the agency's E-Verify office, which oversees a program that companies can use to validate a job applicant's legal ability to work in the country.
However, employees will not be going back to their normal jobs. All 300 workers will be trained starting Tuesday and then assigned to other USCIS jobs that have been deemed critical. They will continue in these new roles, the nature of which the official did not specify, until the shutdown concludes.
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Gotta frisk granny at the airport.
Too many muzzie (SPIT!) guys getting thru without their ‘junk’ being fondled?
So it begins.
Amazing that when push comes to shove, they somehow find money within their department.
Well I figure with the three caravans on the way they had to do something to bring folks back.
Hopefully they’re there to send out some pink slips. Non-essential govt employees are just that... NON-ESSENTIAL.
How about a federal govt that only does things that are essential and does away with things that aren’t? That would actually be GOOD governance. Let the states take care of the rest.
It’s the last line that counts...
“However, employees will not be going back to their normal jobs. All 300 workers will be trained starting Tuesday and then assigned to other USCIS jobs that have been deemed critical. They will continue in these new roles, the nature of which the official did not specify, until the shutdown concludes.”
Not going back to their normal jobs.
Trained for NEW ROLES.
“Only until the shutdown ends?” Are we sure?
Or is this maybe... more permanent?
Retraining is a big deal. Doesn’t sound like something you do on a purely temporary basis. Can we hope?
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