L. Francis Cissna’s departure is the latest high-profile shake up at the Department of Homeland Security in recent weeks.
L. Francis Cissna, director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, speaks at the White House in 2017.
One source with knowledge of the White House's thinking said Cissna was perceived as"lacking the leadership, assertiveness and executive savvy" to guide the administration's biggest policy priorities in the second half of Trump's first term. “Another difficulty for him was that his priority was reforming abuses in the legal immigration system and modernizing the system to benefit applicants, while some in the White House wanted the focus to be nearly exclusively on illegal immigration, and allowing businesses to avoid much scrutiny,” she said.
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