Trump appointee overseeing migrant complaints left previous job over 'stress'

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/25/cameron-quinn-homeland-security-job-stress-670360

The appointed official who oversees the Department of Homeland Security office handling complaints and concerns from migrant parents separated from their kids left a previous job as a county elections official because it was too stressful.

Cameron Quinn, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in September as DHS Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, asked not to be reappointed in 2015 to her job running the board of elections in Fairfax County, Virginia, because of her health.


“I have recognized that, given the health challenges that have manifested since I began this job, it is not prudent to intentionally go through such stress as is engendered by a presidential election year,” Quinn wrote to the county, according to a story the Washington Post published at the time.

The Post had reported in 2014 that Quinn’s four years overseeing the office were marked by infighting and high staff turnover.

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1. Civil Rights Appointee's Qualifications Questioned

By Hassan A. Kanu and Jacquie Lee

President Donald Trump’s pick to head a Homeland Security Department’s equal employment opportunity and civil rights office has been accused of voter suppression and dishonesty in the past ...

... Quinn was the chief election official for Fairfax County, Va., from 2011 to 2015. The local Democratic Party sued her and others in 2012, alleging election workers were instructed to prohibit poll watchers from speaking to voters at polling locations. That and a related incident of alleged perjury could potentially cast a shadow over her appointment, which doesn’t require Senate confirmation ...

The DHS office .. handles civil rights complaints from the public regarding department employees. That responsibility is likely to prove particularly consequential as the administration’s positions on race, immigration, and policing continue to get close scrutiny. The Transportation Security Administration, many agencies involved in immigration law and enforcement, and even the Federal Emergency Management Agency are under the purview of the DHS ...

... Some noted that she stepped down from the registrar’s office amid controversy, and was ordered to take management training because of complaints from her staff ...

Judge Dennis Smith .. suggested Quinn hadn’t been truthful and implied that a perjury investigation may be appropriate ...

https://www.bna.com/trump-dhs-civil-n73014463416/

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2. Well, this will be a do-nothing job

so she'll be able to chill on our dime all day long, I suppose.