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A former Homeland Security official has claimed some people in the Trump administration have white nationalist views. She has endorsed Joe Biden for president.
Elizabeth Neumann served as Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy at Trump’s DHS and even voted for him in 2016 but her opinion has since changed.
Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor said the Lou Dobbs was referred to as the shadow chief of staff and Trump got his policies from the cable news host.
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski was not impressed with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen‘s testimony before Congress yesterday.
The Morning Joe co-host not only criticized Nielsen but also said “she’s become the face of the Trump administration’s abuse of children at the border.”
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge was on a talk show this morning and he said that members of Congress should stop trying to get “political wins” from the issue of immigration. Instead, Ridge said, he thinks it is time for both parties to come together and agree on a bipartisan approach to solve America’s immigration problems.
The #2 ranking Senate Democrat has called upon Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen Nielsen to resign, following the release of a government watchdog report. The report found that the Trump administration stole thousands more children under the “zero tolerance” policy than was previously known. “No one has been held accountable for this humanitarian disaster at our southern border,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois tweeted. “DHS Secretary Nielsen should accept responsibility for this outrage and resign.”
Many U.S. law enforcement and security officials now believe that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has its priorities wrong. According to these highly-experienced professionals DHS resources are being wasted on the so-called “threat” posed to our southern border by the caravan of poor refugees making its way north through Mexico from Central America.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) revealed that Trump’s executive order was a lie, and Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen privately told lawmakers that Trump is going to resume separating families at the border.
Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions and Kirstjen Nielsen have often said that “the law” requires that undocumented children be separated from their parents a the U.S.-Mexico border, but there is no law that requires that.
The U.S. government placed thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children in the homes of sponsors in 2017, and now has admitted that it can’t account for nearly 1,500 of them. And according to a top official the government “is not legally responsible for children” once they are placed in a home.
Nielsen apparently made the mistake of trying to use reason when discussing the issue with the president. Observers say she attempted to explain to her boss that there were many complex issues involved. She also tried to make him understand that the Homeland Security Department has legal restrictions which govern what she can and cannot do.
A provision of the new Homeland Security reauthorization bill would allow armed Secret Service agents to enter polling locations at the direction of the President, and state officials in charge of elections are not happy. The bill has been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and next will be considered in the U.S. Senate.
The Republican Holy Grail of sequestration, the idea they were so proud of that they bragged about it and begged for it for years, has turned out to be a total failure. The fallout resulting from their slapdash, chaotic efforts to drown the baby with the bathwater continues.
Senate Democrats blocked the motion to negotiate with the House on the Homeland Security funding bill that means that John Boehner is both out of options and quickly running out of time on his Homeland Security crisis.
White House sources are suggesting that John Boehner's strategy of picking a fight with the president over his immigration executive actions has backfired and led to Boehner and Mitch McConnell giving Obama 99% of what he wants.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has some pointed words for House Republicans. Sanders told them that it was time to stop playing political games. and found it incomprehensible that the House is refusing to properly fund Homeland Security.
Speaker of the House John Boehner cracked up on Fox News Sunday and admitted during his Stepford-like screaming performance that he is going to let Homeland Security shut down.
Only four legislative days left. Tick tock. Nancy Pelosi called on Republicans to honor their sacred oath to protect the American people.
Speaker Boehner refused to answer directly whether he believes the Department of Homeland Security would shut down when pressed repeatedly by reporters. The media kept pushing Boehner on his promise that Homeland Security would not shut down. The result was a busted Speaker who was caught in a lie.
President Obama took out one of the biggest myths about his presidency while discussing his 2016 budget. The president took aim at Republican distortions by saying, "Since I took office, we've cut the deficit by about two-thirds."
Not only is Secretary Jeh C. Johnson urging President Obama to veto the GOP bill due to the amendments, but he forcefully condemned the Republican attempts to turn the agency into a "political volleyball."