DHS secretly shuttered Obama-era task force, empowering Border Patrol parent agency

[Nevilledog]

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Tweet text: Anna Giaritelli
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SCOOP: Trump appointees at DHS ordered, in a verbal proclamation, that the department’s 60-person Joint Task Force West be shut down. Sources said it was done verbally so as not to tip off Congress or the White House.
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DHS secretly shuttered Obama-era task force, empowering Border Patrol parent agency
The Trump administration secretly disbanded an Obama-era task force that oversaw the Department of Homeland Security’s handling of southern border issues in what officials told the Washington...
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dhs-secretly-shuttered-obama-era-task-force-empowering-border-patrol-parent-agency

The Trump administration secretly disbanded an Obama-era task force that oversaw the Department of Homeland Security’s handling of southern border issues in what officials told the Washington Examiner could be an effort to make Customs and Border Protection more independent.

Top Trump appointees at DHS ordered, in a verbal proclamation, that the department’s 60-person Joint Task Force West be shut down. Sources at DHS, including people on the task force, said it was done verbally so as not to tip off lawmakers on Capitol Hill and national security advisers in the White House. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill were not informed, despite it being protocol to do so, according to a senior Senate aide and two DHS officials who all spoke on the condition of anonymity. White House and National Security Council officials did not respond to requests for comment.

A senior DHS official with firsthand knowledge of the action said DHS is “trying to get this done and kill it to where nobody has any knowledge and they can't be held accountable for their actions.”

Mark Morgan, the senior official performing the duties of CBP commissioner, "hates this thing,” the official said. “This is them dissolving the last of the Obama administration’s footprint.”

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Trump supporters love to torture Brown children...IT is why they must NEVER have power again

[secondwind]

2. "Dissolving the last of the Obama Administration's footprint."

This is all that he has done the past 3-1/2 years. Destroy, dismantle, deflect, etc.