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 Morgans 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.
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BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)you fill positions with "acting" officials and things go wrong really fast. Who would have imagined such an outcome!?!
orangecrush
(19,519 posts)Lindsay
(3,276 posts)of re-making the USA in his own image.
How could it not keep getting worse?