The leadership carousel at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took another spin this week as the agency underwent fresh changes among officials tasked with enforcing immigration law.
Roughly 10 weeks after a purge of DHS leaders that included former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abruptly resigned and the agency announced a new head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
And there are rumblings that acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan is not on solid ground. Some of President Trump’s allies and outside groups that favor stricter immigration laws are expressing frustration with McAleenan, suggesting further changes could be on the horizon as the president seeks to implement the right mix of loyalists and immigration hardliners to implement his agenda heading into 2020.
View the complete June 30 article by Brett Samuels on The Hill website here.