3 things that give me hope about Kevin McAleenan as interim DHS chief
Published 17 hours ago on April 7, 2019
By JD Rucker ï‚™
Two pieces of good news about the border made the news today. This is a rare occurrence in an age when all the news at the border has been bad for what feels like years. But today was a good day. Kirstjen Nielsen resigned and Kevin McAleenan was made interim DHS chief.
Admittedly, I haven’t been the most successful prognosticator when it comes to disposition of cabinet choices. Early on I felt Jeff Sessions would be the President’s most loyal ally in the cabinet, while I figured Mike Pompeo would be a disaster at State. Sessions was a debacle and Pompeo has pleasantly surprised me.
Despite my cabinet pick success rate record being worse than my Final Four brackets, I’m more confident about McAleenan taking the reins at DHS than I’ve been about other picks. Nobody knows what he’ll be able to do until he does (or doesn’t) do it, but there are three reasons I have high hopes:
1.He believes in strong security that does NOT breach American citizens’ privacy<..snip..>
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