[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 228 (Wednesday, November 25, 2020)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 75223-75230]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26060]



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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 two ratification documents 
regarding a number of previous actions by the Department. The 
ratifications provide the public with certainty, by resolving any 
potential defect in the validity of those actions.

DATES: The ratification documents were signed on November 16, 2020 and 
relate back to the original date of each action ratified.

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 the 
Acting Secretary and by former Acting Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan, and 
one previous action by U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 
Deputy Director for Policy Joseph Edlow. The Department continues to 
maintain that the November 8, 2019, succession order designating Chad 
Wolf as Acting Secretary is valid and that Acting Secretary Wolf had 
the authority to take the actions being ratified in the attached 
appendix. And the Department continues to maintain that the April 9, 
2019, 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 these ratifications and is now publishing them in the 
Federal Register out of an abundance of caution. Neither the 
ratifications 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.

Appendix

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