Trump administration nominates immigration hard-liner for migration post at State Department

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Sophie Tatum, CNN

Updated 10:33 PM ET, Thu May 24, 2018

Washington (CNN) - The Trump administration has tapped immigration hard-liner Ronald Mortensen to be the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.

Mortensen, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based think tank that advocates restricting legal and illegal immigration, previously worked for the State Department as a foreign service officer, according to his biography on the center's website.

Mortensen's nomination was announced by the White House on Thursday, among several others, and has to be confirmed by the Senate.

The bureau that Mortensen would be in charge of is expected to provide "protection, ease suffering, and resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world on behalf of the American people," according to its mission statement.



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/politics/assistant-secretary-of-state-ronald-mortensen/index.html

[lunasun]

1. Comes from a think tank that wants to restrict legal immigration ...

[mpcamb]

2. How could anybody - especially a Democrat - ever vote to void the department's mission?

"Protection, ease suffering, and resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world on behalf of the American people"
That's in the job title.
Stop letting these horrible people pass muster to work in our government!