Who's next? Trump shakes up top DHS ranks
by Anna Giaritelli
April 08, 2019 04:07 PM Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security are wondering who will be next to depart the agency after a series of surprise terminations in recent days — and no way of knowing if President Trump is through with the chopping block.
Three senior officials at the 16-year-old agency, including the secretary of the department, have been stripped of their offices. That leaves the country's border and immigration agencies without directors as the highest number of migrants in more than a decade continues to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The upheaval makes DHS the latest federal agency to operate under an acting director. And while immigration enforcement is a key component of DHS' mission, it's actually only one part. The Secret Service falls under DHS, and on Monday, that unit, charged with protecting the president and his family, saw its own shakeup.
The firings began last Thursday night when Ronald Vitiello, who was nominated last June to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was informed by a senior White House official he would not be traveling with Trump to the border the following day.
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