Many of Nielsen's harshest critics are celebrating her departure, but all of the signs suggest Trump is poised to replace her with someone they'll despise even more.
A migrant family, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America en route to the United States, run away from tear gas in front of the border wall between the U.S and Mexico in Tijuana, Mexico November 25, 2018."She'll be remembered for enthusiastically promoting the most controversial policies and for the misinformation she pushed out regularly," Greg Siskind, and immigration attorney based out of Memphis, Tennessee, told INSIDER of Nielsen.
Echoing these views, Matthew Kolken, an immigration attorney in Buffalo, New York, told INSIDER,"[Nielsen] will be remembered as the face of child separations, one of darkest and unwashable stains on the history of our country. She was tasked with putting a smiling face on the policy of enforced cruelty. If I were her I wouldn't be able to sleep at night."
But Nielsen's departure does not signal an end to the White House's hardline approach to the border, and instead showcases Trump's dissatisfaction with her inability to successfully implement the more extreme aspects of his immigration agenda.Mana Yegani, an immigration lawyer in Houston, Texas, told INSIDER the departing Homeland Security secretary"will not be remembered well.
"Kirstjen Nielsen will be remembered as putting children in cages. Not being accountable for the hundreds of children becoming orphans as they were separated from their parents," Yegani said."She will be remembered for those"As President Trump ramps up for reelection he wants immigration to be front and center.
For now, Kevin McAleenan, who's been serving as US Customs and Border Protection commissioner, will take over from Nielsen as acting DHS chief. McAleenan is a career official who also worked in the Obama administration, and does not seem to be the likely choice for a permanent replacement — especially given
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