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    The White House Is Discussing Replacements for Homeland Security Chief Kirstjen Niels

    The White House Is Discussing Replacements for Homeland Security Chief Kirstjen Nielsen



    May 17, 2018 10:51 AM ET

    Three options are being considered.


    The White House is discussing possible replacements for Department of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, because Donald Trump is unhappy with how she is running the massive agency tasked with keeping the U.S. safe, according to two people briefed on the situation.

    Names being discussed inside the White House include Tom Cotton, the senator from Arkansas, Energy secretary Rick Perry, and Thomas Homan, the retiring head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one of these people said. Cotton and Perry were also considered for the position previously.

    Spokesmen for the three men and the department had no comment.

    Nielsen, 46, is a former lawyer and George W. Bush homeland security appointee who has been in the job since just December 2017, and her departure would add to the Trump administration’s unusually high turnover. Her nomination last October was questioned in Washington’s security community, because some felt she didn’t have the experience for the job. She had the support of former boss and White House chief of staff John Kelly, however, as well as Washington lobbyists.

    In several negotiations since Trump was elected, Congress refused to give Homeland Security the billions the agency requested to build his promised wall on the U.S.’s southern border. Nielsen is being blamed in the White House for the omission, one of the people briefed said. Far-right pundits have been mocking the administration this week for failing to get it done, angering Trump, this person said.

    Trump was also furious when he found out that the omnibus spending bill that funded the federal government this March barely contained any funding for the wall.

    Last week, Nielsen drafted a resignation letter but did not send it, the New York Times reported, after Trump erupted in a meeting over what he sees as loopholes allowing illegal immigration. Nielsen denied that she “threatened to resign,” at a Senate hearing this week. During a meeting at the White House today attended by reporters, Trump praised Nielsen, saying she was doing “a good job, and it’s not an easy job.” (About Homan, Trump said, “There’s no such thing as retirement for Tom.”)

    Under Nielsen, Homeland Security has pushed many of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration priorities, which some critics have referred to as a “mild form of ethnic cleansing.” The agency ended “Temporary Permanent Status” for hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents, many with children who are American citizens. It has relied on misleading statistics to raise concerns about immigrant crime and Trump officials say it plans to separate immigrant children from their parents even if the families are seeking asylum.

    In January, Nielsen barred all but a few close allies from speaking to Congress on immigration, angering some top officials there.

    Critics say the department’s anti-immigration focus has come at the expense of the nation’s security, and of fighting home-grown extremism and threats to U.S. cybersecurity.

    https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing...ielsen/148274/


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    It would be good to have the president choose someone against amnesty. Could that person get Congressional approval?
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    I support Thomas Homan. This isn't a Lawyer's job, it's not a Governor's job, it's not even a Senator's job, it's a boots on the ground job and Homan knows that better than anyone in DC based on his extremely articulate interviews and statements. Cotton needs to stay in the Senate and pass his Raise Act.
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    Of the three given choices, Homan would be the better choice. As for Rick Perry, hell no!

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach View Post
    It would be good to have the president choose someone against amnesty. Could that person get Congressional approval?
    I would love to see Kris Kobach in the job, however, I'm afraid he would never get congressional confirmation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
    I would love to see Kris Kobach in the job, however, I'm afraid he would never get congressional confirmation.
    MW, that would be wonderful. I think President Trump could recess appoint Kris Kobach.
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