"The ongoing Department of Homeland Security leadership shake-up is intended to unleash a wave of immigration-restricting regulations, a senior administration official told reporters at the White House Tuesday.

The regulations could deny work permits to asylum-seekers, restrict their ability to send money home, and make it more difficult to gain entry into the United States by claiming "credible fear" of persecution.

Most controversially, the Trump administration is considering how to craft a regulation that would cue up a new court battle over detaining migrant families with children longer than 20 days, currently forbidden by the 1997 Flores settlement agreement.

To limit admission of people claiming fear of persecution in their home countries, the White House is pushing cross-referencing of migrants with recent reports from their country, and consideration of whether they can be relocated internally within their own country."

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