Trump says DHS Secretary Nielsen leaving

[George II]

Source: CNN

(CNN)BREAKING: President Donald Trump says Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is "leaving her position," and that "Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary" of DHS.

Nielsen had a 5 p.m. meeting Sunday at the White House with Trump where she was planning to discuss with him immigration and border issues and a path forward, senior administration officials tell CNN.

She had no intention of resigning, according to one of the sources, but rather was going there with an agenda. But the source said, it is believed within the administration that Trump will be pushing for personnel changes.

The source notes Trump's frustration with the current asylum laws, and his desire for individuals who work for the administration to just stop central American asylum seekers from entering the United States, contrary to the law.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/07/politics/kirstjen-nielsen-homeland-security/index.html

[hlthe2b]

1. That curt tweet screams: Trump is pissed.

I hope she told him off (even though I can't stand her, either)

[BigmanPigman]

2. Was she fired or "resigned"?

[George II]

4. From the looks of it she was fired.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Thoughts and prayers...

Now they have announced she resigned and not fired. Sure, riiiiiiiight.

[George II]

8. Yes, I'm sure she didn't resign. She was in way over her head anyway.

[William Seger]

10. I'd say it's 50:50 she learned about it from the tweet

[Hugin]

16. Just like Comey, Sessions, McCabe, and Mueller...

She was fired.

Sacked.

Given the pink slip.

The old heave ho.

Sayonara, baby.

Yep.

[BigmanPigman]

17. Exactly. I bet they make people "resign"

for two reasons...
1. That way she won't get unemployment insurance.
2. tRump acts tough but is a coward and has it done by others and by not directly saying "you're fired".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Mueller was not fired. His office is still open, doing work. . . . nt

[DURHAM D]

3. I have not been following this so

why did he fire her?

Was she not making her quota for children sold to sex traffickers?

otherwise known as Trump's money source and close friends

[kimbutgar]

5. I have been thinking that some of these children have been sex trafficked for a long time and

And that is why they wouldn’t let those three Florida representatives into those private detonation camps this past week. It is coming out and KKK Nielsen will be the fall person.

I keep coming back to Florida and Jeff Epstein in my mind as to iwhy they are separating these children.

[DURHAM D]

9. I have thought from the beginning that

Trump and others saw these children as a money source. It will be decades before some of their stories are told.

[olegramps]

20. I would like to know just who owns these kiddy jails. Bet they wear MAGA hats to work.

[underpants]

7. Her position is one of sucking

Sorry had to say it.

[machoneman]

11. She was likely told....break the law, stop all immigration....or else.

Funny, but if he could or did offer some protection from the law (which he can't, save for offering to pay her attorney's fees) he didn't, I'm quite sure.

Hey, Maduro in Venezuela is looking for camp guards....just sayin'.

[catbyte]

12. What's Eva gonna do now? Torture puppies in a lab somewhere?

[Judi Lynn]

13. Sorry to have to bring it up but your post on this information was the first here this afternoon.

I'm kicking!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Obviously, to Trump's insiders, Nielsen was just too nice to immigrants.

Gotta find someone harsher, stricter, crueler.

[Judi Lynn]

15. Heard something like this this afternoon on MSNBC, didn't really focus, but sounded like he wants

to replace her with someone more vicious, and it's some guy he has in mind already.

[Fred Sandman]

24. Bingo!! Someone willing to risk criminal prosecution and is joined at the hip with

the border security union, a union infested with fascists and joined at the hip with Trump.

[nitpicker]

18. Link to DW

https://www.dw.com/en/us-homeland-security-secretary-nielsen-resigns/a-48246838

[nitpicker]

19. Link to The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/07/kirstjen-nielsen-resigns-trump-homeland-security-secretary

[beachbum bob]

21. going from a terrible Nielsen to an even worse DHS secretary is no win for democrats or immigrants

[oldsoftie]

23. When he hired her, she was the "best". Now, she's not "tough enough". No, idiot,

she couldnt do what you wanted because she had to follow the law.
Cant WAIT to see what bullshit he pulls next

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Trump's support of renewed child separation policy led to collision with Nielsen

President Donald Trump has for months urged his administration to reinstate large-scale separation of migrant families crossing the border, according to three U.S. officials with knowledge of meetings at the White House.

Trump's outgoing Homeland Security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, resisted — setting her at odds with the president.

According to two of the sources, Nielsen told Trump that federal court orders prohibited the Department of Homeland Security from reinstating the policy, and that he would be reversing his own executive order from June that ended family separations.

Three U.S. officials said that Kevin McAleenan, the head of Customs and Border Patrol who is expected to take over as acting DHS secretary, has not ruled out family separation as an option.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-has-months-been-urging-administration-reinstate-child-separation-policy-n992021

So Trump wants to break the law, to be cruel to children; Nielsen just wasn't willing to do that again. So Trump goes for a yes-man who thinks "if the president wants it, it's not illegal".