Yet Nielsen reportedly pushed back against the President’s latest efforts to revive and, according to CNN, even expand family separation to deter the flow of migrants to the border.
Kirstjen Nielsen’s long-anticipated departure from the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday appears to be part of a broader overhaul of the department’s top brass amid growing frustration in the White House over the continuing flow of migrants to the southern border.
“If ‘tough’ means cruel and illegal,” then the departure of top officials is to be expected, said Alan Bersin, who was commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and an assistant secretary of DHS during the Obama administration. “You cannot expect for significant leaders to do things that are needlessly cruel or completely illegal.”
The only way to truly fix this border emergency is with emergency legislation. Misguided court decisions and outdated laws have created loopholes that are the main cause of today’s crisis. @DHSgov cannot travel this road alone—we need Congress to do its job so we can do ours. Yet Nielsen reportedly pushed back against the President’s latest efforts to revive and, according to CNN, even expand family separation to deter the flow of migrants to the border. Doing so, she reportedly explained Trump, would both violate federal court orders and contradict his own executive order from last June which ended family separations.
....I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job! McAleenan, who oversaw CBP’s implementation of zero tolerance the first time around, has not ruled out the possibility of reinstituting family separation. He is reportedly considering a policy that would offer parents a “binary choice” of being separated from their children, or held together as a family in a long-term detention facility, an option that raises several legal and logistical concerns.
She also looked for a way around the law to allow for the administration to deny asylum seekers entry into the country. The effort was unsuccessful, but Trump nevertheless pushed for the policy, reportedly telling Border Patrol agents during a visit to Calexico, California last week that they should not allow migrants into the country.
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