Opinion: Kirstjen Nielsen just revealed how Trump’s pathologies and lawlessness will get worse
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 8 at 10:46 AM It has become a ritual of the Trump years: Each time President Trump parts ways with one of his top advisers or associates, that person then embarks on an effort to expunge the deep moral stain left behind by his or her service to Trump’s depraved, corrupt, incompetent, and even sometimes criminal designs.
Along those lines, Politico reports that Nielsen’s ouster reflects Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller’s consolidation of power inside the administration. Miller is trying to bring in more immigration “hard-liners,” because he is “frustrated by the lack of headway” that the administration has made on immigration.
Last week, as Trump threatened once again to shut down the border ... Miller held a conference call with immigration activists to explain the administration’s position and answer questions. The president called Ms. Nielsen at home early in the mornings to demand that she take action to stop migrants from entering the country, including doing things that were clearly illegal, such as blocking all migrants from seeking asylum. She repeatedly noted the limitations imposed on her department by federal laws, court settlements and international obligations. Trump repeatedly demanded that Nielsen break the law, by closing the border to asylum-seeking entirely.
Now they are pushing for changes to the law that would make it possible to detain asylum-seeking families — including children — for far longer, and to more easily deport Central American migrant children.
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