DHS has previously described the office as acting as an internal roadblock to the agency’s immigration ... civil rights safeguards at DHS and the removal of congressionally mandated oversight ...

Civil rights ... to restore three DHS oversight offices closed by the Trump administration. These offices, CRCL, Ombudsman Office, and OIDO, provided crucial oversight of immigration enforcement.

In early March, Immigration ... office abruptly ceased, prompting Thursday’s whistleblower report. “These disclosures together depict a wholesale elimination of internal civil rights safeguards at DHS ...

On March 21, Homeland Security said it was implementing a reduction in force at the three offices: the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention ...