Kevin McAleenan, who becomes acting DHS secretary when Kirstjen Nielsen leaves, has carried out Trump's most controversial efforts at the border.
President Donald Trump's pick to head the Department of Homeland Security didn't take the traditional route to his position, but Kevin McAleenan has carried out every aspect of the president's hard-line immigration strategy in an attempt to seal the southern border.
Nielsen has voiced increasing frustration at the situation, which the administration considers a national security crisis, and last week she compared it to a Category 5 hurricane.All along, McAleenan has been at the center of that storm. Ever since, McAleenan has carried out some of Trump’s most controversial efforts to halt undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers from crossing the southern border.
And starting in December, four migrants died in four months while in Border Patrol custody, highlighting the troubling conditions that migrants are housed in after entering the U.S. In charge of full immigration scriptHe also defended another controversial practice employed by the agency of “metering” would-be asylum-seekers, meaning only a limited number are allowed to enter U.S. ports of entry each day to request asylum. Critics of that process say it’s unfair of Trump to ask migrants to make their asylum claims at ports, then making them wait weeks or months on the Mexican side of the border to make that claim.
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