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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 05:14 PM Jun 2019

Mark Morgan to replace John Sanders as border chief, as DHS shake-up continues

Source: The Washington Post


By Nick Miroff and
Josh Dawsey June 25 at 3:40 PM

President Trump is preparing to name Mark Morgan, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as his new border chief, replacing the current acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, John Sanders, according to two DHS officials and a legislative staffer briefed on the move.

It was yet another personnel change at the highest levels of the Department of Homeland Security, where leadership instability has accompanied a crisis at the border amid the biggest migration surge in more than a decade.

The shake-up Tuesday continued a purge of DHS leadership that Trump began in April that has left every single border- or immigration-related agency at DHS with an acting leader who has not been confirmed by the Senate.

Matt Albence, the deputy director of ICE who led the agency before Morgan’s arrival, will resume once more as ICE acting director, said the DHS officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the personnel moves have not been announced publicly.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/top-us-border-official-john-sanders-to-step-down-deepening-dhs-turmoil/2019/06/25/1c6c933e-9764-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html

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Mark Morgan to replace John Sanders as border chief, as DHS shake-up continues (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2019 OP
Gee, go figure... BigmanPigman Jun 2019 #1
This will be even worse. orangecrush Jun 2019 #2
Trump is in the process Lindsay Jun 2019 #3
It'll still be the same old clusterfuck Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2019 #4

BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
1. Gee, go figure...
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 05:25 PM
Jun 2019

you fill positions with "acting" officials and things go wrong really fast. Who would have imagined such an outcome!?!

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