[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 201 (Friday, October 16, 2020)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 65653-65656]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-23067]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

8 CFR Chapter I


Ratification of Department Actions

AGENCY: Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

ACTION: Ratification.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security, through its Acting 
Secretary, is publishing a notice of the ratification of a number of 
previous actions by the Department. The ratification provides the 
public with certainty, by resolving any potential defect in the 
validity of those actions.

DATES: The ratification was signed on October 7, 2020, and relates back 
to the original date of each action that it ratifies.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leo (Chip) Boucher, Assistant General 
Counsel, Administrative Law, Office of the General Counsel, Department 
of Homeland Security Washington, DC 20528, (202) 282-9822.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Homeland Security, through 
its Acting Secretary, is ratifying a number of previous actions by 
former Acting Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan and one previous action by 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Deputy Director for Policy 
Joseph

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Edlow. The Department continues to maintain that the prior succession 
order designating Kevin K. McAleenan as Acting Secretary was valid and 
that Acting Secretary McAleenan had the authority to take the actions 
being ratified in the appendix. The Department issued this ratification 
and is now publishing it in the Federal Register out of an abundance of 
caution. Neither the ratification nor the publication is a statement 
that the ratified actions would be invalid absent the ratification.

Ian Brekke,
Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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