Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will make his second trip to the U.S.-...
WASHINGTON - Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will make his second trip to the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday as the Pentagon looks to develop a longer-term plan to support President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
He will travel with another acting secretary, Kevin McAleenan, who leads the Department of Homeland Security after a shake-up instigated by Trump, who is increasingly frustrated by the rising tide of migrants despite his hard-line immigration policies. “ getting us out of this à la carte tasking where, ‘Hey, we need 50 guys to do this, 50 guys to do that’,” a senior defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“And yet politically, given the president’s profound interest in all things border and immigration, that has obviously won out as the drag on Shanahan’s time,” Karlin added.
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