It looks like the pressure is mounting on Trump’s acting DHS Chief to resign and it has everything to do with the ICE raids:
POLITICO – Hard-liners inside and outside the Trump administration are pressing for the removal of President Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security secretary amid a rolling leadership purge that began in April and shows no signs of ending, according to five people in the Trump administration and four former Department of Homeland Security officials.
Kevin McAleenan, who took over the post less than three months ago, is under heavy criticism from prominent Trump allies, including former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan, who may become the administration’s immigration czar.
Following the purge of three other immigration officials since the April resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, McAleenan stands accused of disloyalty to the Trump White House’s hard line on immigration because of a perception that he didn’t support ICE raids targeting migrant families scheduled to begin last weekend.
We told you the other day that Homan accused McAleenan of leaking the raids to the Washington Post.
And then came all the reporting on McAleenan’s contributions to Democrats. Clearly there is a campaign afoot to get him out.
“There is no question that the president is sensitive to the lack of progress in resolving this crisis at the border and frustrated with the pace of changes, and it has become increasingly evident that one of the main reasons for the lack of progress is because Kevin McAleenan has been reluctant to take action that would more effective,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies. “A lot of ideas proposed have been bottled up by him and his front office.”
The Trump White House assumed McAleenan could work with Democrats on Capitol Hill to secure more funding and policy changes, since he’s worked under both Republican and Democratic administrations, Vaughan said. But “he has not been able to deliver on those things.”
Democrats aren’t gonna be fooled by one of their own. Trump could send Obama to secure more funding and they wouldn’t budge – because they want to defeat Trump next year and everything is about the election.
So don’t be surprised if you hear in the next few days, perhaps on July 4th itself, that the acting DHS Secretary wants to spend more time with his family or something…