Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who defended the separation of thousands of migrant children from their families on the southern border and carried out the most sweeping changes to U.S. asylum policy in decades, left her job Sunday.
to the border just before the Nov. 6 midterm election to help block what the president termed an “invasion” by several thousand Central American migrants moving north in so-called caravans. The president has extended the deployment through September.
Although a number of Trump’s immigration policies have been blocked by the courts, the most sweeping change, implemented under Nielsen, remains in effect: forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated in the United States.he disagreed with Trump’s decision in December to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and AfghanistanHe defended Nielsen’s actions amid the outcry over family separations, saying she and the White House were caught by surprise when Atty. Gen.
"It’s not that one side is right, one side is wrong. Anybody that is advocating violence, we need to work to mitigate,” she said at the Aspen Security Forum in July 2018.
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