Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is expected to offer her resignation at a meeting at the White House on Sunday, U.S. officials familiar with the matter say. Nielsen was set to meet with President Trump at 5 p.m., the officials said.
Nielsen’s expected departure is a part of a massive DHS overhaul engineered and directed by top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, according to a senior U.S. official. It’s unclear whether Nielsen is deciding to resign voluntarily, or whether she has been pressured to resign. Nielsen has served as DHS secretary since December 2017, and questions about how much longer she might last have swirled for months, as the president continues to articulate his frustrations about illegal immigration.
Nielsen’s anticipated exit also comes after Mr. Trump announced that he wants to go in a “tougher” direction for Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, after previously announcing Ron Vitiello would head ICE.
A U.S. official tells CBS News that Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan is under consideration to serve as the acting DHS secretary if Nielsen’s resignation becomes official, but it is unlikely he would be nominated as Nielsen’s permanent replacement.
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.@PaulaReidCBS reports that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's expected resignation today appears to be a part of a larger overhaul of the department. It's unclear if her exit would be voluntary https://t.co/Pk2EDPD4el pic.twitter.com/2YFpzlTWDV
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 7, 2019
The president and Nielsen have clashed on their approach to immigration and border security from the outset of her tenure, with Trump complaining that she was too soft and pushing her to take measures that crossed legal boundaries, she told allies https://t.co/RfyC56DaGu
— POLITICO (@politico) April 7, 2019
Not easy working for a madman. I feel badly for her.
So Trump wants someone who won’t be soft on illegal immigration. That’s odd. Trump himself has been soft on illegal immigration the whole time he has been president. He has demonstrated time and again that his tough guy rhetoric is not matched by his wishy washy actions. Or inactions. He had about 3 years to fix this problem. He did nothing. Now that he wants another term, he is posturing like Mr. Tough Guy. Sorry, but I don’t buy his act.
In all seriousness, the United States currently has no Secretary of Defense and no Secretary of Homeland Security. https://t.co/EJpRYIT5qI
— David Gura (@davidgura) April 7, 2019
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