Posted on 04/07/2019 3:31:20 PM PDT by conservative98
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is resigning, President Trump announced in a tweet Sunday. CBS News first reported Nielsen's impending departure, which Mr. Trump announced after a 5 p.m. meeting with Nielsen at the White House.
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was there ever ONE ####ing “CLASH” under the obama administration?
Gee, like we never saw this coming.
Please name ONE constructive thing that this woman has done to control the illegal surges over the border.
Obviously, her approach was not working very well given the current situation on the border.
Yes. We have to build on her success./s
Should have been gone months ago. Actually, she should have never been there in the first place.
This leaves me confused....and a little ticked, even though it’s not my border. Was the woman not doing her job from the get-go? Was it at all possible for her to STOP these caravans? Was it, or was it not, up to congress to change the laws? Could the border people have refused entry to these illegals? What the heck is going on? All I’ve read for months is that they are bound by stupid laws. Is this not true? Was she legally able to send all of these people back, but didn’t? Honestly, if the law has to be followed, what the heck else can anyone do?
She was clearly a RINO. This had to be.
If you want the job done correctly on the border, hire me Mr. President. Seriously.
Oh, and yes, I have the credentials to get the job done and the will. I speak Spanish better than they do and they tell me that all of the time. In addition to language skills, I know the culture and how to answer all of their criticism and talk back. Have one of your people PM me here.
Trump seems to have a real blind spot in the people he hires.
They’re all terrific until they’re not.
“...Since everyone will ask, here are the 12 “Republicans” who decided that our southern border being wide open to drug traffickers, human traffickers, MS-13 gang members and garden variety serial killers is just fine:
Lamar Alexander (TN), Mike Lee (UT), Susan Collins (ME), Rand Paul (KY), Mitt Romney (UT), Marco Rubio (FL), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Jerry Moran (KS), Pat Toomey (PA), Roy Blunt (MO), Roger Wicker (MS) and Rob Portman (OH)...”
So, if she was clearly a RINO, that means there was something she could have been doing about the mess at the border that she wasn’t doing. What does that mean? These people could all have been turned around and NOT taken in and released? Could they have been held at the border and fired on with tear gas to make them go back into Mexico? I’d have no problem with that....should have been done from the start.
It’s irrelevant what she’s called.....what could legally be done that is any different?
[Nielsen’s imminent departure is a part of a massive DHS overhaul engineered and directed by top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, according to a senior U.S. official. It’s unclear whether Nielsen is deciding to leave voluntarily, or whether she has been pressured to resign. But Nielsen’s tenure since she was confirmed in December 2017 has at times been rocky, with the president taking some of his frustrations over illegal immigration out on her. Questions about whether she might leave have swirled for months. But she was by the president’s side on Friday in Calexico, California, as Mr. Trump pushed for a crackdown on illegal immigration and the need for a border wall.
Nielsen’s announced exit comes two days after Mr. Trump announced he wants to go in a “tougher” direction in his nomination for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, after originally announcing Ron Vitiello would head ICE. Nielsen’s departure also means acting heads will soon be running DHS, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Nielsen has also been one of only three women serving in Mr. Trump’s Cabinet, the others being Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and CIA Director Gina Haspel. ]
At some point before she was hired, she was a proponent of open borders, as I recall.
Border Protection Leadership is a Mans job.
There are a lot of things she could have done. She did nothing to stop catch-n-release. Temporary shelter could have been built which is plan that I think Trump is going to go with. She is a Bushie. It’s obvious.
She came from the Bush admin.
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