Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan revealeed that he was unhappy with his status at the Department….
With Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, and Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and getting THEIR direction from White House Asst. Stephen Miller not McAleenan , who IS technically their boss?
McAleenan went on the record with the Washington Post about his grips….
I guessed here that the guy was going to work on borrowed time….
Homeland Security bosses are NOT expected to follow past policies, or even legal ones….
Nor are they allowed to express ANY sympathy for those they are expected to hunt down and incarcerate or drop off on the other side of the border….
Trump’s cabinet officers don’t get confirmed….
They just hang around for a few month after which Trump gets tired of them and they quit…
McAleenan had been frustrated with a cadre of Trump’s appointments to senior immigration roles and recently told The Washington Post that he was struggling to control his department. More hard-line figures have attacked him as insufficiently committed to the president’s immigration agenda, while critics of those policies argue he has used conciliatory rhetoric to lend cover to harsh measures.
Trump in turn had questioned whether McAleenan was loyal to him.
A person close to McAleenan said he resigned Friday after weeks of growing disenchantment with his standing in the administration. He was never formally nominated for the job.
“What I don’t have control over is the tone, the message, the public face and approach of the department in an increasingly polarized time,” McAleenan said in an interview with The Washington Post. “That’s uncomfortable, as the accountable, senior figure.”
His tenure at DHS was marked by the implementation of several contentious border policies that have significantly tightened access to the U.S. asylum system — policies he has defended as necessary to “restore integrity” to a U.S. immigration system swamped with a backlog of nearly 1 million pending cases.
McAleenan has been more isolated in recent weeks after the departure of several top aides and close allies in recent months. In addition, his relationships have been strained with other senior figures, especially Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, and Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services…..
Note…
McAleenans wife is a Latina…..
image of McAlleenan with Stephen Miller looking over his back….WashPost