By directing adjudicators to treat adjustment of status as an 'extraordinary form of relief' and by creating a policy preference for consular processing, the memorandum undermines the very purposes Congress sought to advance.
Statement on green card application changes.
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To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.
Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.
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These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.
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