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Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen has resigned

The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Apr 9th 2019 1:29PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on Sunday amid the administration's growing frustration and bitterness over the number of Central American families crossing the southern border, two people familiar with the decision said.

President Donald Trump thanked her for her work in a tweet and announced U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan would be taking over as acting head of the department. McAleenan is a longtime border official who is well-respected by members of Congress and within the administration. The decision to name an immigration officer to the post reflects Trump's priority for a sprawling department founded to combat terrorism following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Though Trump aides were eyeing a staff shake-up at Homeland Security and had already withdrawn the nomination for another key immigration post, the development Sunday was unexpected.

Nielsen traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday with Trump to participate in a roundtable with border officers and local law enforcement. There she echoed Trump's comments on the situation at the border, though she ducked out of the room without explanation for some time while Trump spoke. As they toured a section of newly rebuilt barriers, Nielsen was at Trump's side, introducing him to local officials. She returned to Washington afterward on a Coast Guard Gulfstream, as Trump continued on a fundraising trip to California and Nevada.

But privately, she had grown increasingly frustrated by what she saw as a lack of support from other departments and increased meddling by Trump aides, the people said. She went into a meeting with Trump at the White House in Sunday not knowing whether she'd be fired or would resign, and she ended up resigning, they said.

There have been persistent tensions between the White House and Nielsen almost from the moment she became secretary, after her predecessor John Kelly became the White House chief of staff in 2017. Nielsen was viewed as resistant to some of the harshest immigration measures supported by the president and his aides, particularly senior adviser Stephen Miller, both around the border and on other matters like protected status for some refugees. Once Kelly left the White House last year, Nielsen's days appeared to be numbered. She had expected to be pushed out last November, but her exit never materialized. And during the government shutdown over Trump's push for funding for a border wall, Nielsen's stock inside the White House even appeared to rise.
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But in recent weeks, as a new wave of migration has taxed resources along the border and as Trump sought to regain control of the issue for his 2020 re-e******n campaign, tensions flared anew.
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She made her choice to step down, now i hope she will learn from her mistakes. I hope we will find a new Homeland Security Secretary!! Quick!!!!!!Like!!!!. Now what do Y'all think?

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Why would anyone want to have this thankless job??..I dont blame Miss Nielsen for quitting...Iblame Rats for that..Why??..Because they gave her the hardest time,they villified her..They called her N**i..They called her inhumane,just because she was doing her job..And some assholes on MSM said after she quit that they hope that wherever she goes everybody would know what kind of child separater she is even though she was following the law...Even though family separation started by good ole Billy Clinton and continued by obama..Did any of the Rats complained about it back then??NO!!!..They DID NOT!!!..They are HYPOCRITES and horrible people...Ihope come 2020 we will win everything back!!!...TRUMP 2020!!!

tommsteyer

the media h**ed her now they can't shut up that Trump replaced her.

As someone who has actually witnessed and been the victim of workplace violence I am offended this term has been applied to Ms. Nielsen's exit from the Trump Administration.

Obviously Border security is off the hook . This supposed story about Nielsen stepping down is a non-event event.

The real news is how much in future Social Security it's going to cost the USA to pay all these i******s in their nursing home beds fifty years from now.