Thread: Trump Considers "Immigration Czar" To Coordinate Border Policy Across Agencies

Trump Considers "Immigration Czar" To Coordinate Border Policy Across Agencies



"It has yet to be decided whether the post would be housed within the Department of Homeland Security or the White House."

Mon, 04/01/2019 - 15:40
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The Trump administration is floating the idea of hiring a "border" or "immigration" czar who would coordinate executive policies across several federal agencies, according to TPM, citing three anonymous sources familiar with the discussions.
Two candidates are reportedly under consideration; Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli - both of whom have strong conservative views on immigration.



President Trump and Kris Kobach

It has yet to be decided whether the post would be housed within the Department of Homeland Security or the White House.

White House press aides, Kobach and Cuccinelli did not immediately respond to requests for comment. -TPM

Trump, meanwhile, halted foreign aid to the Central American 'caravan' countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador - and threatened last week to close the US border with Mexico.
On Friday Trump accused the countries of 'setting up' migrant caravans, per CNN.
"We were paying them tremendous amounts of money. And we're not paying them anymore. Because they haven't done a thing for us. They set up these caravans," Trump reportedly said.
"At the Secretary's instruction, we are carrying out the President's direction and ending FY 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle," said a State Department spokesperson. "We will be engaging Congress as part of this process."

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Mark Knoller ✔ @markknoller

Sounding angry and fed up, Pres Trump says Mexico has to stop illegal crossings into the US. If it doesn't, he says he'll shut the southern border for a long time. Also calls on Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador & Colombia to do more to stop caravans and drugs headed for US.

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1:38 PM - Mar 29, 2019

Meanwhile, the Customs and Border Protection agency has its hands full with record numbers of migrants crossing the border illegally between ports of entry.

CBP ✔ @CBP

.@CBP_McAleenan: We are now on pace for over 100,000 apprehensions and encounters with migrants—with 90% (90,000) crossing the border illegally between ports of entry. March will be the highest month in over a decade.

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12:40 PM - Mar 27, 2019

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...cross-agencies

Yes, I like the idea. DHS Secretary Nielsen is not getting the job done. We need someone who can dedicate 100% of their effort toward immigration. Nielsen, who I don't trust anyway, has too many other responsibilities. Give the job to Kris Kobach!

We need someone to shut these refugee, TPS, asylum programs down!

We need someone to load up the 25 million on barges and ship them back home!

No DACA, no Dream Act, no Amnesty #8 and no more extending TPS...send them back!

Send back the refugees too...they cannot stay here forever!



OPERATION RETURN TO SENDER



NO MORE PEOPLE

END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP!

ENFORCE PUBLIC CHARGE LAWS AND TERMINATE THEM FROM OUR TAXPAYER FUNDED BENEFITS! MAKE THEM SELF DEPORT, NO SCHOOL OR MEDICAL CARE EITHER!

Originally Posted by Airbornesapper07

Trump Considers "Immigration Czar" To Coordinate Border Policy Across Agencies

I thought Conservatives made fun of Obama and all his Czar's. What changed?

How did the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with Kris Kobach as Vice Chair and Director of day to day operations work out?

I do not want anyone who makes the statement "Trump is the strongest president we've ever had on illegal immigration" as the Immigration Czar.

Sounds good BUT, until Trump invokes 212f of the immigration and nationality act inorder to DENY asylum claims to citizens of these offending Central American nations, I have to assume HE IS IN ON THIS INVASION and is talking out of both sides of his mouth. That is beyound obvious. Nothing less than denying asylum applications and credible fear interviews to these illiterate dieased dirtbags is going to stop them from coming up here unless the Mexican government physically stops them and has up to now refused to so. Appointing an immigration Czar means nothing because he doesn't need one to stop this invasion.

It appears more people are catching on to all this pretending from the Great Pretender

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President Trump must be asking himself "How can I possibly give a reasonable excuse for not using my executive authority to the fullest in order to deal with this issue?"
To which he replies:
"Ah ha! I'll hire someone to do nothing, then get them to take all the blame!"
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Okay, get it.

By adding an Czar the nation then must sit back and wait for the results.

Buying more time and getting NOTHING DONE

Fool me once, shame on you,
fool me twice, shame on me.

2020 is fast approaching Mr Trump
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We don't have to pay for a worthless Czar with a worthless staff with worthless secretaries and assistances housed in a brand new building stocked with expensive furniture.
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The US doesn't need more figure heads, we need boots on the ground, cuffs off kind of action to show that the US will not tolerate anyone illegally crossing. No more bloated government officials.
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Less government, not more....

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Stop pondering. Start declining all asylum application.
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No czar gimmick needed. Just enforce...Article 1 Section 8...REPEL INVASIONS.

Article 4 Section 4....The United States SHALL guarantee to every State a Republican Form of Government, and SHALL protect EACH OF THEM against INVASION....!
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Mr. President, YOU are the Immigration CZAR.

No more Czars!
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Isn’t the DHS Secretary supposed to be the “immigration czar”?
Where is Lady DACA I’ve heard more from Jeh Johnson over than the past few days than from her.
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Two problems I see with this:
1. We don't need more bureaucrats, we need fewer. Less talking, more action.
2. This person will almost certainly be a member of the Swamp. Most of Trump's nominees are.



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No more bureaucrats, no more Departments, no more agencies, no more programs. My God, we're bankrupt and out of control. Cut. Cut. Cut.
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Why are we using COMMUNIST OBAMA terms like czar?
Why can't who is in place do this?
Why won't you, President Trump, STOP ALL IMMIGRATION?
YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO THAT by being President!
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No more Czars. If the agencies can't communicate between themselves, fire the leaders and hire competent ones who can. Quit spending money we don't have on positions we don't need. I screamed at Obama when he hired Czars and I'll scream at any president who does so. What happened to Drain the Swamp? That's just adding another Swamp Creature.
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Bottom line: HE NEEDS TO STOP ALL CREDIBLE FEAR INTERVIEWS FOR THESE CENTRAL AMERICAN ILLEGAL INVADERS. He claims the LAWS are against him, HE'S LYING!!!!! He has Supreme Court case law that was used in his Muslim Ban order that he won before the court. HE CAN USE THE SAME THING HERE BUT HE'S NOT DOING It!!!!! TRUMP is obviously RUN by his NEW WORLD ORDER Israeli son-in-law Jerad Kushner. This guy is EVERYWHERE AROUND him all the time in White House. Just look at the pictures taken at all his meetings.

AMERICANS NEED TO HIT THE STREETS IN LARGE #'s or were going to get close 1.5 MILLION of there worthless welfare maggots this year alone with NO END IN SIGHT.

I don't think Trump is a traitor. Instead I think he has too many well established GOP ties (like Ivanka and Kushner), too much pressure from the old line GOP, and too few truly populist advisors.

What they really need is a better legal strategy to beat back the open borders lawfare.

Part of the problem was that too many well heeled GOP US Representatives decided to retire instead of fighting it out.








Trump seems to think he is still running a construction company instead of dealing with a pack of weasels. For every illegal alien who ends up embedded here due to either legal defeat or legal inaction is going to spawn ten more. The ACLU will be in total control shortly thereafter.

By Jill Colvin and Colleen Long | AP April 1 at 10:28 PM

WASHINGTON — As he threatens to shut down the southern border, President Donald Trump is considering bringing on a “border” or “immigration czar” to coordinate immigration policy across various federal agencies, according to four people familiar with the discussions.

Trump is weighing at least two potential candidates for the post: former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, according to the people, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the conversations publicly.

Kobach and Cuccinelli are far-right conservatives with strong views on immigration. Cuccinelli was seen at the White House on Monday.

The planning comes as Trump is threatening anew to close the U.S.-Mexico border as soon as this week if Mexico does not completely halt illegal immigration into the U.S. And it serves as the latest sign that the president plans to continue to hammer his hardline immigration rhetoric and policies as he moves past the special counsel’s Russia investigation and works to rally his base heading into his 2020 re-election campaign.

Aides hope the potential appointment, which they caution is still in the planning stages, would serve as the “face” of the administration on immigration issues and would placate both the president and his supporters, showing he is serious and taking action.

White House press aides, Kobach and Cuccinelli did not immediately respond Monday to requests for comment. Kobach previously served as vice chair of the president’s short-lived election fraud commission, which was disbanded after finding little evidence of widespread abuse.

A Department of Homeland Security official noted that White House czars have been appointed in the past when there has been an “urgent need” for sustained, inter-agency policy coordination. While Homeland Security often plays a leading role when it comes to immigration policy and enforcement, the department is not in charge of officials at the departments of Health and Human Services, State, Defense and Justice, which often play key roles.

Trump has often complained, both publicly and privately, about how he has not been able to do more to stop the tide of illegal immigration, which he has likened to an “invasion” and described as a national security crisis. Arrests along the southern border have skyrocketed in recent months and border agents were on track to make 100,000 arrests or denials of entry in March. More than half of those are families with children.

Still, Trump has been pushing. He has deployed National Guard troops to the border, forced a government shutdown to try to pressure Congress to provide more money for his long-promised border wall, and eventually signed an emergency declaration to circumvent lawmakers. He also moved Saturday to cut direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where citizens are fleeing north and overwhelming U.S. resources at the southern border.

Those moves have involved a swath of government agencies. The Justice Department manages the immigration courts that decide whether a migrant is deported; Health and Human Services manages the care of migrant children apprehended at the border; agencies within Homeland Security manage the allocation of legal status, immigration enforcement and asylum requests; and the Pentagon and the Army Corps of Engineers manage facets of border wall construction.

But not all are always on the same page.

Earlier this year, for example, Health and Human Services closed down a temporary facility being used to house migrant children in Tornillo, Texas, creating a problem for border agents who ran out of bed space when the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border spiked. Homeland Security is not allowed to hold children in detention facilities for longer than 20 days.

And last year, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions instituted a “zero tolerance” policy at the border without consulting others, causing a spike in the number of migrant children separated from their families.

The separated children were placed in HHS custody, but there was no tracking system in place to link parents with their children until a federal judge ordered one, causing widespread fear and concern about whether families would ever see each other again.

It has yet to be decided whether the czar position would be housed within Homeland Security or within the White House, which would not require Senate confirmation.

A person positioned within the White House could coordinate immigration policy across various agencies, working closely with aides who are deeply involved in the issue, including senior advisers Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner, national security adviser John Bolton and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who supports the idea.

Appointing a person based within Homeland Security could be trickier because the department’s agency heads are all Senate-confirmed positions and, in the case of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, are longtime immigration officials with decades of experience dealing with the border.

While immigration officials would welcome an adviser focused specifically on policy across the varying agencies, the names being floated are likely to spark backlash and criticism.

Kobach, an immigration hardliner, ran a failed bid for governor promising to drive immigrants living in the U.S. illegally out of the country. He has recently been working for a nonprofit corporation, WeBuildtheWall Inc., which has been raising private money to build Trump’s wall.

Cuccinelli has advocated for denying citizenship to American-born children of parents living in the U.S. illegally, limiting in-state tuition at public universities only to those who are citizens or legal residents, and allowing workers to file lawsuits when an employer knowingly hires someone living in the country illegally for taking a job from a “law abiding competitor.”

Thomas Homan, the former acting ICE director, has also been mentioned as a potential pick, according to one of the people familiar with the talks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.17bcde587033