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    Border hawks riled after Trump meeting with Texas’ McCaul for Homeland post

    Border hawks riled after Trump meeting with Texas’ McCaul for Homeland post


    Rep. Michael T. McCaul met Tuesday with President-elect Donald Trump in New York. (Associated Press) more >

    By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 29, 2016

    Donald Trump’s interview Tuesday with Rep. Michael T. McCaul for secretary of homeland security set off alarms for illegal immigration opponents who view the congressman as weak on border security and latently pro-amnesty.


    Mr. McCaul, Texas Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has repeatedly riled conservatives with what they describe as ineffective posturing against President Obama’s lax enforcement of immigration laws.


    His chief offense was co-authoring the 2015 Secure Our Borders First Act, which conservatives and activists reviled as a fig leaf to Democrats that included tough language but ignored the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and kept too much decision-making in the hands of the Obama administration.


    “We certainly hope that Donald Trump would not reward a deceptive pro-amnesty lawmaker like Michael McCaul with a Cabinet position,” said William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. “That would be very disappointing to all of us that believed his campaign promises to secure our borders and deport millions of illegal immigrants under current U.S. laws.”

    He noted that Mr. McCaul also was among 19 House Republicans who in 2014 signed onto House Speaker John A. Boehner’s “Principles on Immigration Reform” agenda, which included a path to citizenship and voting rights for illegal immigrants.


    The homeland security secretary will be one of the most prominent nominations for Mr. Trump, who made fighting illegal immigration the cornerstone of his campaign. He promised to implement aggressive deportation policies and build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

    That’s why Mr. McCaul would be a surprising choice, said Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports a crackdown on illegal immigration.

    “I don’t doubt Mr. McCaul’s commitment to homeland security, but I do wonder about his commitment to controlling immigration,” she said. “He has been quite moderate and conventional on border security issues, eschewing any bold moves to address the problems created by the Obama administration’s policies, for example.”


    Mr. McCaul’s border security bill, she said, exposed the chairman’s weak stance on the issue while unaccompanied children were surging into the United States.


    “Even in the midst of a crisis at the border, when tens of thousands of new arrivals from Central America and other nations were streaming across to be released under Obama policies, he introduced a border security bill that avoided the critical issues that were fueling the crisis,” said Ms. Vaughan. “This bill was panned by the most prominent Border Patrol associations, even though it would have been a huge infusion of funding, because it ignored the key problems such as the catch-and-release policy.”


    Mr. McCaul first wrote his border security bill in 2013, working with Democrats on a compromise that demanded the Homeland Security Department come up with specific plans for curtailing illegal crossings.

    Meanwhile, Senate Republicans were advancing a proposal that called for specifics: 20,000 more Border Patrol agents, hundreds of miles of additional fencing and clear-cut technology goals.

    Mr. McCaul’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment Tuesday, but he has defended his approach in the past by saying he didn’t want to dole out resources without having a strategy in place.


    House Democrats liked Mr. McCaul’s approach and even adopted it as their own, using it as the border security component of a broad immigration overhaul bill in the previous Congress.


    After his meeting with the president-elect, Mr. McCaul told reporters at Trump Tower that the conversation was “substantive and productive.”


    In response to reporters’ questions, Mr. McCaul described border security in terms of fighting terrorism.


    “I articulated to the president how we need to close off all terror pathways into the United States. We need to secure our borders and secure the United States from these terrorists coming into the United States and perpetrating acts of terror like what we saw yesterday,” he said, referring to the attack at Ohio State University.


    Trump transition team officials have extolled the president-elect for bringing a diverse group of candidates into the interview process.


    Still, Mr. McCaul isn’t the only candidate to provoke criticism.


    Mr. Trump’s supporters also balked at his consideration of Mitt Romney for secretary of state, saying the 2012 Republican presidential nominee was an unforgivable foe who tried to undermine Mr. Trump’s campaign and represented the worst tendencies of the party’s establishment.


    Activists against illegal immigration were quick to name someone they deemed better suited than Mr. McCaul for homeland security secretary.


    Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations at NumbersUSA, which lobbies for stricter immigration enforcement, said the Homeland Security Department needs a leader with knowledge of law enforcement and immigration policy.


    Her favorite for the job was Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who also serves as legal counsel to the Immigration Law Reform Institute and worked as counsel to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

    Mr. Kobach is advising the Trump transition team and has met with the president-elect.


    “That immigration component is absolutely critical if Donald Trump wants to move his agenda forward in a realistic and effective way,” she said. “Mike McCaul is not in any way, shape or form that we have seen evidence of an expert on immigration policy.”


    Other candidates interviewed for homeland security secretary include Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly.


    Mr. Gheen said the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC was backing Sheriff Arpaio.


    Sheriff Arpaio, known as “America’s toughest sheriff,” has been on the forefront of the fight against illegal immigration. He lost a re-election bid Nov. 8 after 24 years in office.


    “We would love to see Sheriff Joe Arpaio put in charge of the Department of Homeland Security or Border Patrol,” said Mr. Gheen. “We put that idea online last week and received a huge positive response.”


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    MALKIN: KRIS KOBACH FOR DHS SECRETARY

    By: Michelle Malkin | November 16, 2016


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    Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is — hands down, no contest — the best, strongest, and most logical choice to head Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.

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    President-elect Donald Trump made immigration enforcement and border security the centerpiece of his winning campaign. He defied the open-borders establishment on the Left and the Right. He listened to American victims of illegal immigration who were snubbed by the RNC. He was endorsed by American workers whose careers were sabotaged by H-1B policies championed by other GOP candidates.Trump’s commitment to American sovereignty and the inclusion of staunch immigration enforcement hawks in his inner circle were prime reasons I voted for him — and why I refused over the past year to join the “Never Trump” crowd when they called me up asking me to sign their grand statements and open letters. It is why I was able to set aside other policy misgivings and support and vote for him without hesitation over BushRubioKasichHillary.

    Now, Trump needs a bulldog at DHS with the expertise, experience, and energy to fulfill his promises to put America and American workers and American rule of law first.

    Kobach is the whole package: A constitutional lawyer, a former DHS official who knows the ins and outs of the $40 billion, 240,000-employee homeland security bureaucracy, and a statewide executive officeholder who has used his position to fight against election fraud and corruption. He’s a Marshall scholar and Yale Law grad who has not lost his heartland roots and soul. His specialty as an advisor to former Attorney General John Ashcroft? Immigration law and border security.
    (By contrast, Obama’s current DHS secretary Jeh Johnson — a man with ZERO experience in border security, port security, airport security or immigration enforcement — got there because of his crony campaign finance bundler status.)

    Kobach has extensive experience crafting legislation, implementing counterterrorism programs, testifying before Congress, and dealing with protesters and the media.

    As I’ve documented previously, Kobach led the creation of NSEERS after 9/11. That’s the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System that required higher scrutiny and common-sense registration requirements for individuals from jihad-friendly countries including Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, as well as other at-risk countries.

    NSEERS stopped at least 330 known foreign criminals and three known terrorists who had attempted to come into the country at certain official ports of entry. The system applied exactly the kind of heightened scrutiny of potential jihadists from terror-coddling countries that Trump called for during the campaign.

    The next DHS secretary cannot afford to take precious time doing on-the-job training. He must be ready to roll — and not be rolled.

    Kobach has extensive experience crafting legislation, implementing counterterrorism programs, testifying before Congress, and dealing with protesters and the media. One of his biggest assets is his hands-on experience combating some of Trump’s most vocal enemies. He has battled the ACLU, the immigration lawyers’ lobby, and ethnic groups that don’t believe in our borders.

    The Kansas public servant and father of five daughters has also volunteered his legal services over the years to individuals who were victims of bloody open-borders policies — as well as states and localities fighting in court for the right to stop illegal immigration in their backyards and workplaces.

    “Some people golf in their spare time,” Kobach once remarked. “I defend American sovereignty.”
    This would be a serious pick and a perfect fit. And it’s why the mere possibility of DHS Secretary Kobach has the usual heads exploding.

    The objections won’t just come from far Leftists. Sore-loser anti-Trump Republicans in the Senate will be tempted to help block a Kobach nomination.

    I would remind those feckless GOP obstructionists that they bent over backwards to show deference to Barack Obama for his picks.

    Remember Orrin Hatch and company slobbering over AG nominee Eric Holder in 2009? I do:
    “I like Barack Obama and want to help him if I can.” That was Utah GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch in January 2009, just weeks before the Senate voted on President Obama’s attorney general nominee, Eric Holder. Right out of the gate, upon Obama’s election in November 2008, Hatch signaled that he would greenlight the administration’s top law enforcer.

    “I start with the premise that the president deserves the benefit of the doubt,” the six-term incumbent Hatch told The Hill newspaper. “I don’t think politics should be played with the attorney general.”


    In this critical time of ISIS metastasis around the world, out-of-control borders, rampant abuse of guest worker and non-immigrant visa programs, massive backlogs and fraud, and completely overwhelmed DHS agencies, this is no time to bend to usual Beltway politics and games. DHS needs a man ready to restore the rule of law and reclaim the department from the day one — whether it be in the courtroom fighting for the border wall or against Obama’s legacy executive amnesties or in the field.

    Nothing Donald Trump does will ever appease the Washington donor class, mainstream media, or social justice mob. You can’t appease the Unappeaseables. Kobach is “controversial” for the same reasons Trump is:

    He’s not afraid or ashamed to insist that America come first.
    Editor's Note: This piece has been updated to fix a typographical error in the third paragraph.



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    Not surprising at all. Johnson knows McCaul is the only amnesty supporter Trump is considering for the position. Knowing this probably leads him to believe McCaul would be the weakest potential candidate on interior enforcement and border security. As Attorney General, Sen. Sessions will work closely with the Secretary of DHS, which means he needs to put a bug in Trump's ear quick!

    Hmm, makes you wonder who submitted McCaul's name to Trump as a potential job candidate. If I could guess one person, I'd say the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, is that person.

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    After his meeting with the president-elect, Mr. McCaul told reporters at Trump Tower that the conversation was “substantive and productive.”

    In response to reporters’ questions, Mr. McCaul described border security in terms of fighting terrorism.


    “I articulated to the president how we need to close off all terror pathways into the United States. We need to secure our borders and secure the United States from these terrorists coming into the United States and perpetrating acts of terror like what we saw yesterday,” he said, referring to the attack at Ohio State University.
    Terrorist this, terrorist that ... blah, blah, blah. Okay, we get that terrorism is a critical issue, but what about illegal immigration?

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    I'm going to have to read up on Mr. McCaul.

    It doesn't surprise me that he is soft on illegal immigration. It angers me that he, and far too many state and national lawmakers from Texas are of the same mind.

    This is something I have been watching for 40 years here in Texas. Our lawmakers were making speeches, and writing about 'bringing them out of the shadows', etc. When the illegals began to spread across the country and people were experiencing what Texas had for years, they were not as open or vocal - but they didn't change their stripes.

    We even had one that stated on his website, he had 'an Hispanic council' that advised him on border issues. As if the border were not even an American border. I posted it here years ago, and that statement got removed from his site.

    OK, so Sheriff Joe is out of a job now - time to give him a call - or Sheriff Clark. Surely, there are more.

    Another thing that has bothered me for some time. They keep putting out the figure of 11 million. That is the figure they have been using since before Pres. George Bush came into office. Either that's wrong, or we have really been making 'legal's out of them at a fast clip, because the flow is steady and has been growing.

    Sorry, I do get a little worked up sometimes.

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