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What is the obvious reason for Trump firing Dept. of Homeland Security secretaries?
Profitable for investors visiting resorts in Miami, of course...
Please read this short Opening Post first:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212003375
The Latest: Acting DHS deputy secretary forced to resign
April 9, 2019
The acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security has been forced to resign amid a staff shakeup...
Claire Grady resigned Tuesday. She was technically the next in line to replace Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned Sunday. But Trump chose Kevin McAleenan, the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as acting secretary.
https://www.apnews.com/db2b8785104e44539b9c521dd5d21bdc
April 9, 2019
The acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security has been forced to resign amid a staff shakeup...
Claire Grady resigned Tuesday. She was technically the next in line to replace Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned Sunday. But Trump chose Kevin McAleenan, the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as acting secretary.
https://www.apnews.com/db2b8785104e44539b9c521dd5d21bdc
Trump Picks Family Separation Advocate Kevin McAleenan to Be Acting Secretary of Homeland Security
By Brian Tashman, ACLU
APRIL 9, 2019 | 6:15 PM
With his selection of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan to serve as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), President Trump has once again shown that he has no regrets over his administration’s disastrous policy of separating families.
McAleenan was one of the three DHS officials to recommend the cruel and inhumane policy to outgoing Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, writing that the department’s best option to “increase the consequences for dangerous illegal crossings” was to “direct the separation of parents or legal guardians and minors held in immigration detention so that the parent or legal guardian can be prosecuted.”
Despite signing the family separation memo and overseeing the very agency that implemented the policy, McAleenan stated in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that “we do not have a policy of administrative separation.” He later made the absurd claim that family separation was meant to “protect families and children,” even though child welfare experts had warned that “separating children from their mothers or fathers leads to serious, negative consequences to children’s health and development.”
Alarmingly, the president may bring back an expanded version of his administration’s family separation policy. According to NBC News, McAleenan has already indicated that he would be open to resuming large-scale family separation, and CNN reported that Trump “wanted families separated even if they came in at a legal port of entry and were legal asylum seekers”...
https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/trump-picks-family-separation-advocate-kevin-mcaleenan-be-acting-secretary
By Brian Tashman, ACLU
APRIL 9, 2019 | 6:15 PM
With his selection of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan to serve as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), President Trump has once again shown that he has no regrets over his administration’s disastrous policy of separating families.
McAleenan was one of the three DHS officials to recommend the cruel and inhumane policy to outgoing Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, writing that the department’s best option to “increase the consequences for dangerous illegal crossings” was to “direct the separation of parents or legal guardians and minors held in immigration detention so that the parent or legal guardian can be prosecuted.”
Despite signing the family separation memo and overseeing the very agency that implemented the policy, McAleenan stated in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that “we do not have a policy of administrative separation.” He later made the absurd claim that family separation was meant to “protect families and children,” even though child welfare experts had warned that “separating children from their mothers or fathers leads to serious, negative consequences to children’s health and development.”
Alarmingly, the president may bring back an expanded version of his administration’s family separation policy. According to NBC News, McAleenan has already indicated that he would be open to resuming large-scale family separation, and CNN reported that Trump “wanted families separated even if they came in at a legal port of entry and were legal asylum seekers”...
https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/trump-picks-family-separation-advocate-kevin-mcaleenan-be-acting-secretary
Hey, here's a Trumpy idea! Appoint your pal Jeffery Epstein, as youth, activities coordinator, in the profitable "Detention Center," if he gets bored with his cushy, high-class, jail sentence, courtesy of who?
Epstein was inexplicably given federal immunity under an unusual agreement approved by then-Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, currently serving as Secretary of Labor.
As part of the arrangement, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to charges in state court. His victims were never told about the plea deal until well after Epstein was quietly sentenced, serving 13 months in a private wing of the county jail — along with liberal work release privileges and a private valet who drove him to his office every day.
