I feel it has only created another level of bureaucracy that will become a self-perpetuating and ever-growing department. It is creating a post that will fill the function the DCI was supposed to handle. Pure window dressing.
There should be nothing for Illegal Aliens here in the US. Nothing, Nothing, Nothing. The law that says a child born in the US is Automatically a US Citizen should be changed, Both Parents must be legal citizens of the US, for the child to be a Citizen.
The agencies that we have should contribute employee's to the DHS to work directly for the Director and also act as a Liason with there Home Departments. This keeps the info flowing, not only into DHS, but out of DHS and back to the Home Offices.
So a Directors Office, that gathers information that is pertinant to US Homeland Security, but also is shared among the information gathering and inforcment agencies.
The Border needs to be PHYSICALLY CONTROLLED, not wide open as it is. A Double wall of Concrete, topped with 10'-15' electrified Chain link Fence and covered razor wire. Between the walls Land Mines. Towers about every 1/4 to 1/2 mile intervals. Bridges at entry points. Helos with Swat teams ready.
For shipments coming into the country, Warehouses and Refrigerated Warehouses where foreign trucks drop off their shipments to examination and testing if necessary. Only US Trucks and Trucking firms transport goods within the US.