CHAD WOLF
Multiple roles
2019-2021
@ChadFWolf
TRUMP ADMIN CONSIDERING CHAD WOLF, AN AUTHOR OF FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY, FOR DHS CHIEF
As far back as December 2017, when Wolf was acting chief of staff to Nielsen, he sent a list of 16 options to curb the number of undocumented immigrants to Gene Hamilton, counselor to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for review.
Number two on the list: "Separate family units."
October 22, 2019
HOMELAND SECURITY SEC. SAYS NO SYSTEMIC RACISM IN POLICING
June 8, 2020
“I do not think that we have a systemic racism problem with law enforcement officers across this country,” Wolf told ABC’s Martha Raddatz on “This Week.“ His comments come after protests over police brutality have erupted in all 50 states in the U.S. and around the globe following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin.
TRUMP’S USE OF FEDERAL FORCES IN PORTLAND DRAWS COMPARISONS TO GESTAPO AND SECRET POLICE
Gov. Brown said she has asked Wolf to “remove all federal officers from our streets,” and said his response showed that he was “on a mission to provoke confrontation for political purposes.”
July 17, 2020
FORMER CLIENTS OF ACTING HOMELAND SECURITY CHIEF CHAD WOLF RECEIVED MILLIONS IN DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS
Wolf, who became the acting chief of the department late last year, was a lobbyist for over a decade at Wexler & Walker before he took leadership roles with DHS under President Donald Trump. Wolf served as the acting chief of staff at the Transportation Security Administration in 2017 and later became the chief of staff for former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Since then, several of Wolf’s former clients reaped a total of at least $160 million in contracts from DHS, according to a CNBC analysis of the public filings.
August 5, 2020
ACTING HOMELAND SECRETARY CHAD WOLF DEFIES SUBPOENA AND SKIPS HOUSE HEARING
September 17, 2020
"As the person running the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Wolf should be here to testify, as secretaries of Homeland Security have done before. Instead, we have an empty chair -- an appropriate metaphor for the Trump Administration's dereliction on so many of these critical homeland security issues," Thompson said at the hearing.
Last week, the committee issued the subpoena to Wolf amid whistleblower allegations that he urged department officials to alter intelligence.
GOODBYE, CHAD WOLF
November 7, 2020
Tracy also interviewed several former colleagues of Wolf’s, who said that when they worked with him, he was “an effective but milquetoast bureaucrat.” But after getting onto the ladder at Trump’s DHS, Wolf became something else—something Trumpier. In public statements, he has been quite willing to advance Trumpian arguments: This past summer, he told ABC’s This Week that there was no “systemic racism” problem in law enforcement; in early September, he used the occasion of a “State of the Homeland” address to blame China and the World Health Organization for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Behind the scenes, Wolf has also been willing to use the department to advance sinister policies on Trump’s and Miller’s behalf. It was Wolf who, in December 2017, drafted the memo of policy recommendations that proposed the separation of “family units” (how cold that sounds) at the border. He then lied to Congress, during his confirmation for his undersecretary job, about his knowledge of the family separation policy. More recently, under his leadership, expedited deportation programs have been hustling migrant asylum-seekers out of the country without benefit of legal counsel, using COVID-19 as cover.
A FEDERAL JUDGE RULES ACTING DHS HEAD’S DACA SUSPENSION WAS INVALID
November 15, 2020
The ruling means that Wolf’s July 28 memo effectively suspending new applications to the DACA program — which 640,000 immigrants known as “dreamers,” who were brought to the US illegally as children, rely on to live and work in the US — has been deemed invalid. Wolf’s memo had shortened the renewal period for protections under the program from two years to one year.
JUDGE BLOCKS WIDE-RANGING ASYLUM LIMITS, FINDING DHS CHIEF DID NOT HAVE AUTHORITY TO ISSUE THEM
Based on this conclusion, Donato said Wolf did not have the authority to greenlight a regulation that would erect new restrictions at every stage of the U.S. asylum process, including rules that generally disqualify victims of gang violence, gender-based persecution, domestic abuse and torture staged by "rogue" government officials from U.S. refuge.
January 9, 2021
BIDEN REVERSING TRAVEL BAN FOR MUSLIM COUNTRIES ‘VERY DISAPPOINTING’: CHAD WOLF
Speaking on "America Reports" shortly after Biden took the oath of office on Wednesday, Wolf called the move to reverse the travel bans "very disappointing."
January 20, 2021