President-elect Donald Trump’s Homeland Security landing team began operations Monday at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) headquarters in Springfield, Virginia.
The team will specifically assess the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the TSA, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), to advance President Trump’s second-term policies. I am on a mission. According to Go to Politico. The agenda emphasizes fulfilling his promise to deport millions of illegal immigrants. President Trump has reconvened several top officials from his first term to spearhead these efforts.
The DHS review team will be led by Robert Roe, a former top official at USCIS and a Senate guide to Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, President Trump’s nominee for DHS secretary. , Politico reported. He will be joined by veterans such as John Fea of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Joe Edlow of USCIS, along with John Zadrozny of Trump’s State Department.
The team also includes Karen Evans, who previously served as a principal cybersecurity official at both the Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security. Her focus will likely be on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency. Additional members include Hemenway, a White House aide during Trump’s first administration. Robert Perez, former CBP Deputy Commissioner; and Clark Barrow, who served in various government agency roles during the Trump administration.
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Completing the team are former DHS deputy general counsel Sohan Dasgupta, former chief of staff to New York Republican Rep. Brandon Williams, former U.S. Agency for International Development official under Trump administration Joe Guy; These include the deputy chief of staff and chief of staff. Scott Erickson of Politico said: Transition press secretary Brian Hughes said the team has begun reporting the names of its members to the White House and has begun contacting officials from various agencies.
These efforts are aimed at scrutinizing and possibly revising the Biden administration’s homeland security policies, addressing a myriad of issues from cybersecurity to border security, Politico reported. Trump’s team signed the necessary authorization agreements with the Biden administration just before Thanksgiving, leaving just over a month to prepare for the transfer of power on Inauguration Day.
Immigration remains President Trump’s top priority. He dismissed concerns about the cost of a mass deportation strategy, telling NBC News in a phone interview that his plan “has no price tag.” He promised to launch an aggressive immigration enforcement campaign on his first day in office to deport individuals who are in the United States illegally, especially those with criminal records.
His commitment extends to abolishing birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born in the United States, potentially settling a long-standing constitutional debate. The next president plans to abolish this divisive practice in immigration policy, and critics and supporters alike believe the Supreme Court will likely decide the issue based on its interpretation of the 14th Amendment. I admit that I am deaf. (Related: President Trump’s reported ICE plan leaves no hiding place for criminal immigrants)
President Trump also announced the nomination of Caleb Vitello to head ICE and Rodney Scott to head CBP. These institutions are key to his comprehensive immigration policy. Both candidates have extensive experience, with Mr. Vitello serving as Deputy Director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs. Scott served as Border Patrol chief in both the Trump and Biden administrations.
President Trump has been active on border security issues since before he took office, announcing that he had reached an agreement with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to stop migrants from crossing the U.S. southern border. Highlighting their efforts in a post on Truth Social, he described their discussions as “amazing” and said they were developing strategies for both stopping unauthorized immigration and combating drug trafficking into the United States. He pointed out.
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