Groups that represent Trump’s hard-line immigration base urged him to retain top immigration official Francis Cissna amid a staffing shakeup driven by White House senior adviser Stephen Miller
“He’s great. He’s worked in this issue for years, he’s extremely knowledgeable,” Beck said. “He’s exactly the type of person who needs to be in DHS in leadership.”
But as the number of Central American families arrested at the southwest border skyrocketed in recent months, the White House grew frustrated with Cissna’s performance, according to a person familiar with the situation. USCIS does not deal directly with border security, but senior administration officials argued that he allowed the agency’s bureaucracy to sidetrack major initiatives, the person said.
“If they push out the uber-competent guy that the left hates because he's getting things done within the law and the right loves because he's actually being faithful to the president's campaign promises, they're even bigger idiots than we already know,” one former DHS official said.
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