Trump and WH allies pressing for a harder line on immigration sped up their campaign to clean house at DHS with a mission far wider than just the departure of Nielsen. The dismantling of immigration leadership is being orchestrated by Stephen Miller
The dismantling of the government's immigration leadership is being orchestrated by Trump adviser Stephen Miller, the impetus behind some of the administration's most controversial policies, according to three people familiar with the matter. Beyond changing names and faces, Trump is considering separating migrant families at the border again, resuming the practice that drew so much outrage last year, the same people said.
Adding to the turmoil, the director of the Secret Service is being forced out of his job , but that departure is said to be unrelated to the immigration upheaval."The purge of senior leadership at the Department of Homeland Security is unprecedented and a threat to our national security," declared Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California."President Trump is trying to remake DHS into his own personal anti-immigration agency.
She did months of diplomatic work with Central America and Mexico and brokered an arrangement in which asylum seekers were to wait in Mexico for their asylum cases to play out, an effort meant in part to discourage false claims. She moved to abandon long-standing regulations that dictate how long children are allowed to be held in immigration detention and was working to find space to detain all families who cross the border .
Nielsen finally had enough and resigned Sunday, in part because she hadn't been informed about the sudden decision to withdraw Vitiello's nomination, according to people familiar with her decision. Trump spokesman Hogan Gidley expressed hope that McAleenan's experience would lead to"massive changes" at the border.
Gil Kerlikowske, who led Customs and Border Protection from 2014 to 2017, said illegal crossings can go up and down on a number of factors that are difficult to predict. He noted that stepped-up Mexican enforcement helped end a surge of Central American families coming to the U.S. in 2014.
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