AP sources: Trump considers adding 'immigration czar'

[demmiblue]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is considering bringing on a “border” or “immigration czar” to coordinate the president’s immigration policies across various federal agencies, according to three people familiar with the discussions.

President Donald Trump is weighing two potential candidates for the post: Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli — two far-right conservatives with strong views on immigration, according to the people, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the conversations publicly.

The discussion comes as Trump is threatening to close the southern border as soon as this week if Mexico does not completely halt illegal immigration to the U.S.

White House press aides, Kobach and Cuccinelli did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday. Kobach previously served as vice chair of the president’s short-lived election fraud commission, which was disbanded after finding little evidence of widespread fraud.

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[Freethinker65]

1. Sheriff Joe?

[jayschool2013]

2. Brilliant

I mean, Kansas' Kris Kobach and The Cooch(TM) are definitely execrable cretins, but nobody one-ups Sheriff Joe in actually overseeing special camps.

[Dave Starsky]

16. Nailed it.

I tried to imagine the worst person on Earth possible for the job. Someone just as (or even more) stupid as Trump and just as corrupt, but even more racist, particularly against Latinos. I couldn't think of anyone. You got it on the first try.

[Freethinker65]

17. Ha. Thanks

Love your screen name BTW. As a teen, I had a major crush on Starsky of Starsky and Hutch.

[Dave Starsky]

18. I loved that show when I was a kid.

I've been watching it again as an adult, and it's still great. David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser were a terrific buddy team.

[SFnomad]

3. But I thought "czars" were bad? RepubliCONs thought they were for President Obama

Of course, they didn't have a problem with them under Failure-in-Chief Bush.

Good Czars? Bad Czars? Who knows Czars?

Well, when it comes to RepubliCONs, you can bet that they'll have phony outrage when a Democrat does it, but remain silent when a RepubliCON does it.

[LonePirate]

4. How appropriate for the Russian puppet in the White House to appoint a new czar.

[Roy Rolling]

5. Anti-Czar bill

My Congressman Steve Scalise will block this because he authored legislation opposing the creation of new presidential czars. I'm sure Trump appointees will incur the same legislative wrath from Scalise as Obama appointees.

Oh, who am I kidding? Scalise will submit his own name for consideration. But it'll be curious to see how he squares this one.

[47of74]

15. Isn't he the same guy who wants every white person and their sister....

....to be armed to the hilt while still having the inevitable result of GOP firearms policies rattaling around inside him?

[47of74]

6. One of these guys?

[rurallib]

7. Kris, Cooch and Joe?

[KPN]

12. Sure, they all look equally qualified don't they?

[47of74]

14. Yeah.

[meffintn]

8. ???

Didn't Hitler have an immigration czar too?

[applegrove]

9. If it is Stephen Miller then the title should be 'Immigration Fuhrer'

[machoneman]

10. More like immigration dorks!

Good God! Koback or Cuccinelli? Can they go any lower. Talk about bottom of the barrel.

[B Stieg]

11. Cuccinelli is a mutant...

and not in the fun, blue-skinned way. Here's a taste. Jeebus!

"My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that. ... They don't comport with natural law." : mad:

[lindysalsagal]

13. Because Roodie hasn't made the gop a laughingstock, yet.