Kirstjen Nielsen, one of the faces of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, has resigned
Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service,” tweeted Donald Trump on the afternoon of April 7th. Ms Nielsen stepped down on April 10th, but she had been twisting in the wind for months. Though she had publicly defended Mr Trump’s immigration policies, the president thought her weak. Her departure seems to presage a harsher turn on immigration from a president who considers the issue central to his re-election strategy.
The administration’s decision last week to withdraw the nomination of Ronald Vitiello to lead the Border Patrol, which Ms Nielsen had backed, suggested the writing was on the wall. Mr Trump said he wanted to “go in a tougher direction”. After returning from a visit to the southern border last weekend, he demanded and received Ms Nielsen’s resignation.
The problem is that Mr Trump seems to want to do things that American law does not allow—and among the things that reportedly soured him on Ms Nielsen were her reminders that legal constraints existed. Thereported that he demanded that Ms Nielsen should stop migrants from claiming asylum, which is both illegal and impossible.
More departures from Homeland Security may soon follow, including the department’s general counsel and the head of Citizenship and Immigration Services. On April 8th Mr Trump also announced that Randolph Alles would step down as head of the Secret Service, though that may be connected to an embarrassing security breach at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida country club.
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