The president has blamed others for spiking immigration numbers. His housecleaning at DHS shows a realization that he is facing an existential political threat.
By David Nakamura , David Nakamura Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow Josh Dawsey and Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow Seung Min Kim Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow April 9 at 7:15 PM He had threatened to close the southern border and ordered a halt to foreign aid for three Central American nations.
Trump was souring again on Nielsen over her opposition to his demands that DHS reinstate the family separation policy that the president had reversed last summer after a political backlash. Trump considered firing her upon her return, aides said, and though he held off briefly, Nielsen’s demise was sealed.
The stretch also has revealed that a president who has routinely blamed spiking immigration numbers on others — past presidents, congressional Democrats, Mexican authorities, federal judges, human smugglers — is now coming to the realization that the problems are closer to home.
He added that without a strong deterrence message, migrants are “coming like it’s a picnic, like, ‘Let’s go to Disney Land.’”It was Trump who was visiting a resort, his private Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., when he posted the tweets on March 29 that exploded like a flash-bang, shocking the senses of Washington’s political class, business leaders and foreign officials.
The lawmakers were receiving a briefing on the success that El Salvador, with U.S. assistance, has had in reducing violent crime, when an aide informed them of the president’s threats. In contrast to Guatemala and Honduras, Salvadoran migration to the United States has decreased in recent years, and U.S. officials have touted progress in battling the transnational MS-13 gang in that country.
The next day, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that sealing border ports would have a “potentially catastrophic economic impact,” and Sen. John Cornyn , whose state exported $97.7 billion in goods to Mexico in 2017, pleaded with Trump in a phone call to reconsider. “We think a lot of the drama that has occurred . . . is making America look very bad to the rest of the world,” he said.Nielsen’s trip to Europe was planned around the G-7 meeting of Interior ministers in Paris at the end of last week — the type of multilateral collaboration that Trump has largely rejected.
In a meeting on March 28, a day before Trump’s tweets, Nielsen repeatedly urged him not to close the border, officials with knowledge of the meeting said. She also asked Trump for more operational control over negotiations with Mexico and protested that she was not informed of decisions affecting her own agency, said White House aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks.
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