Fox News has learned that Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was cut loose from the Trump administration because she did not agree with the presidents hardline on immigration. Fox recently reported that Nielsen and a top immigration official challenged a previously secret White House plan to arrest thousands of migrant parents and children in nearly a dozen U.S. cities.
According to the reporting, the Trump administration wanted to target migrant families that had crossed into the U.S. from Mexico in an attempt to show that the U.S. wasn’t going to back down on its border stance by detaining and deporting illegal immigrant families.
The operation included fast-tracking immigration court cases and allowing the U.S. to deport those who failed to show up in their hearings as well as coordinating raids against parents with children in several cities, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and several other major metropolitan areas, Fox News confirmed, after initial reports of the plan appeared in the Washington Post.
Nielsen and top immigration official Ronald Vitiello pushed back on the administration’s plan, citing lack of preparation, public outrage and worries that the operation could use border resources. Stephen Miller and ICE Deputy Director Matthew Albence were supportive of the plan arguing that such an operation could deter migrants from crossing into the U.S., according to the original report in The Washington Post.
Push Back and Heads Roll
Nielsen and Vitiello were concerned over the operation and logistics of the plan and not the ethical reasons behind it, according to WashPo. Nielsen also worried that targeting parents and children might detract from the White House’s goal of going after so-called “criminal aliens.”
“There was concern that it was being hastily put together, would be ineffective and might actually backfire by misdirecting resources away from critical border emergency response operations,” a Homeland Security official told The Washington Post.
Nielsen and Vitiello’s push back was reportedly part of the reason why Trump pushed both officials out of the administration.
Neither Homeland Security nor the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have commented on the report. Miller, through a White House spokesman, declined comment to Fox News or The Post.
Women and children first!!!
If they came in illegally, they are criminals.
Now, do the original plan!
I gotta support Trump on this. Border security and immigrations enforcement were two of the main reasons he was elected. Without that America will soon become a 3rd world country. Of course that is what the dems want.
In order for the POTUS to realize accomplishment of hi Agenda items he must have department heads that agree with what he proposes.