Trump administration immigration enforcement denaturalization immigration policy deportation USCIS Joseph Edlow Danny Andrade

The Trump administration has quietly restructured the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to align with its deportation agenda, according to an internal agency document reviewed by The New Yorker’s Jonathan Blitzer.

Under this reorganization, USCIS—responsible for managing visas, green cards, and naturalizations—has established a new Tactical Operations Division. This 80-person unit is divided into teams focused on:

  • Denaturalization efforts;
  • Refugee re-vetting;
  • Fraud detection and national security; and
  • Legal Permanent Resident (LPR) operations, which include identifying cases to rescind residency status.

The division is led by Danny Andrade, who was also appointed to oversee the newly opened USCIS field office in Nashville.

Sarah Pierce, a former USCIS policy analyst, highlighted the agency’s challenges in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. She noted that USCIS has lost thousands of employees in the past year, with its application backlog nearly doubling since 2020. Despite these issues, Pierce criticized USCIS Director Joseph Edlow for diverting resources from adjudication to deportation efforts.

USCIS’s workforce has declined by 11 percent over the past year, as the agency has increasingly become a site for immigration enforcement actions. In September, the Trump administration implemented a new rule permitting USCIS to hire special agents for arrest purposes. Recent job listings further reveal the agency’s shift, with postings seeking personnel described as “Homeland Defenders.”

Source: The New Republic
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