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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/sorry_to_see_kirstjen_nielsen_go.htmlby Monica Showalter
As with the departure of her mentor, former White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly, the exit of Kirstjen Nielsen as secretary of homeland security is cause for regret.
Nielsen resigned from Homeland Security Sunday, with a polite resignation letter and a courteous Twitter sendoff from President Trump.
It didn't really make sense, because she did a capable, competent job in a complex, difficult position, particularly on border security. The press is reporting that President Trump wanted more in the way of results, which is reflective of his hotel manager temperament, described so well here. There is a crisis on the border as millions of illegals — and not just from Central America anymore — and the criminals they are supposedly fleeing from prepare to flood the U.S. southern border.
Nielsen wasn't awful. She displayed a capable, competent dedication to the mission, never insulting us, never going into Bush-era "compassion" for illegal aliens to send mixed messages from the country's top law enforcement body on the border. She was somewhat creative, as government officials go, in attempting to halt the flow from the Central American side of things, as well as through Mexico. She was also competent on disaster relief, as she noted in her resignation letter. There were no problems with that on her watch. And unlike some Trump appointees, she was scandal-free, and perhaps those general ethical qualities are why she never exceeded the bounds of her authority as homeland security secretary.
Yet she made little progress on the border crisis. You could see the strain on her face in her photos. Was that her fault? Not really. She was demonized constantly by the left-wing press, she had to deal with leftist lawsuits over simple enforcement of the law at every turn, she got nothing but non-cooperation from America's sanctuary cities and states hell-bent on rewriting the law to their liking, she was up against leftist activist judges intent on nullifying U.S. law, and she was even harassed by leftist lunatics in the streets. In the middle of all this, Nielsen was capable and dignified.
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