By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 8 at 9:45 AM The Post reports on the forced resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen:
There is little doubt that no matter how draconian her policies and disingenuous her answers to Congress about the family separation debacle, Nielsen could never be as grotesquely cruel or as dismissive of existing law as her boss demanded. He ranted and raged, apparently insisting that she do things the law did not allow:
Third, no Democratic presidential candidate should follow Trump’s fear-mongering and anti-immigrant bashing. Nevertheless, Sen. Bernie Sanders , appearing in Iowa, sounded rather Trumpian responding to a question on “open borders.” He declared, “That is not my view. I think what we need is comprehensive immigration reform.
Fourth, Democrats ideally should offer a coherent and comprehensive immigration policy. The current crisis is a humanitarian one, arguably aggravated by Trump’s hostile relationship with Mexico, threatened aid cutoff and refusal to address the issue of asylum processing.
President Obama is the guy who put kids in cages when this whole catastrophe started in 2014. Media
WaPo blames Nielsen for Obama’s policies & lies to public about it! Disgraceful biased liberal fake news media is caught again!
anneapplebaum This assumes they have souls to sell.
What an awful thing to say. And, why put 'opinion' in front of the statement? Your newspaper is a democrat newspaper, has been for a long time.
Lying slander-
The whole USA is now becoming a Reality Show with president Trump as the Megalomaniac Star just like starring “You are FIRED”. Now he is firing everyone helping him. The whole world is now watching The US President’s Reality Show, that is happening for REAL.
Nah!
Hell called they needed her back.
Hey Kirstjen Nielsen maybe AOC can get you a job at a bar
You might want to stop destroying people just for fun. It’s not a good look. You folks are disgusting.
Finally - I said it a while back! SecNielsen should have been fired a long time ago!! KarmaBitesBack
The day she lied that she was not separating children- and thousands of children were separated-put in cages-- some sent off to no one knows where-NO RECORDS- -she could have left-but did not--
JRubinBlogger Wow! Anxious to read trump’s obituary!
The Poo still stinks.
JRubinBlogger She wasn’t involved in the Hispanic home countries treating their own citizens so cruelly. Wasn’t the parent (or fake parent) of the children that were forced to make a dangerous and illegal journey. She wasn’t even a member of the disingenuous American left encouraging them.
She was a VERY active participant in this. She can't walk away from her past in this Administration.
Wasn’t she “Helga” in one of the “Women in chains” movies? She was the Butch Warden, wasn’t she?
She followed the law. The only other option was to send children to jail along with their parents. When you break the law and get caught, you don't get to take your kids with you. Blame the parents, not the law.
A person's character was probably in question long before selling their soul to PresidentOrangeBizarro
And yet she praised the President for sacking her.
I wonder if she was able to finish her coat of immigrant skins?
Back to the streets you go
LOL! If by 'cruelty and incompetence' you mean doing nearly the same thing Obama did, then sure.
anneapplebaum Propagandists: get the facts straight! The photos of kids in cages were taken in 2014 under the Obama administration & some of them were deliberately crafted protests against the Obama administration!
anneapplebaum Spin doctors!!! The photos of kids in cages were taken in 2014 were crafted protests against the Obama administration!
Assume this is from a pundit who believes in killing babies.
All we can do is make sure America never forgets what she did
questar1959_ron She should be charged for accessory in crimes against children just like the Nazis who willingly took part in crimes against Jewish people for Hitler! This is a present day crime history regarding the deliberate crimes against asylum seekers children!
She has done nothing but tried to defend our borders. I for 9ne would like to say THANK YOU
Haaaaaaaaaahahahahaha, whaever
Unacceptable! These folks must be reprimanded. Investigate, indict & punish!
JRubinBlogger Wow!! you people lie for a living!! She did NOTHING wrong. Blame the lawless Democrats and the people trying to break into the country.
WP fake news .. you mean Obama’s legacy and Democratic Congress to refuse to change the laws. The cruelty belongs to Democrats and Obama.
anneapplebaum Crazy how evil people usually look evil.
You mean trump is bad?
Again lying and fabricating the truth to mislead the American people to fit your political narrative.
Opinion: WaPoo's legacy of lies and treason is sealed.
The Eye of Evil. No thank you, jail the bird.
Lol now do the Obama years.
JRubinBlogger Is this glowing piece the start of her reputation rehab?
JRubinBlogger I hope she walks in shame for as long as the children she treated so heartlessly and cavalierly suffer the emotional scars.
This is a fine sample of Democrats clapping seals medias shameless lying. The caged kids pics are from the Obama era as well the FloresPolicy separating families instead of sending them back. Takes awhile to clean up messes the Democrats&Rinos refuse to change.-
anneapplebaum Blocked by paywall.
“Opinion”? Sounds more like you are claiming fact from the rest of your headline.
anneapplebaum Trump might as well formalize Stephen Miller's dark, shameful role and make him DHS secretary. Too bad Miller wasn't removed when the White House purged his fellow fascisti, Gorka and Bannon.
JRubinBlogger Nielsen is the least of the problems. Focus all your resources on immigration policy adviser Stephen Miller.
She should be shunned like Captain Boycott.
JRubinBlogger
anneapplebaum CruelessDeville
SecNielsen TrumpIsARacist
“I was just following orders”. Didn’t work at Nuremberg and won’t work here 💪🏼🇺🇸💪🏼
Cruel and incompetent - that's one hell of a way to go through life!!
She was a Kelly appointee, this is not a surprise, curious where the children in cages comes from, that was Obama
A Mexican businesswoman’s decapitated body was discovered with a note that reportedly said she was killed because her husband “didn’t want to pay” a ransom. The body of Susana Carrera was found last Wednesday inside a bag in a parking lot in the coastal city of Coatzacoalcos.
lskurrus It's one thing to be wicked. It's another thing to look like it, too.
Or, was she just not cruel enough? The audacity of executive cruelty!
Obama had the same policies. Just because you failed to cover them, doesn't mean it's not so.
Satan
Millennial_Dems I wish them all nightmares for the rest of their days. I hope they daily have an increasing level of awareness and awakening of the horror their choices created for people. Choices that ensured that people and children suffered and hurt. shame
There don't seem to be any consequences for these people. They move on to be employed by other conservative firms or become commentators on Fox News or Sinclair...or employed by other conservative media outlets or think tanks. Some, like Whitaker, are clearly paid in advance
thank you !
47,000 kids STILL separated from their parents, location unknown.
mockingbirdmedia FactsMatter WakeUpAmerica QAnon WWG1WGAWORLDWIDE
To some degree.. There's not much to seal, as she didn't keep records. She was as clueless as Trump when the major question was asked... Where are the children!! KirstjenNielsen
Chinese and Russian bots talking nonsense.
Nonsense.
We the people who didn't vote for trump already knew this about trump and his incompetence of him and those idiotic individuals he bring with him. We can stand together and end this madness '2020'
Thank you JRubinBlogger for this scathing indictment of Kirstjen Nielsen and her unhinged boss but you have again failed to identify the biggest villain in this tragedy - Stephen Miller. He’s the power behind the throne putting ever more despicable policies in tRump’s head.
From now on, if they don't thoroughly carry out the Trump's far-right policies, Secretaries and Staffs all will be fired. Oh so scary!
What Nielsen will be forever remembered for
Always someone else' fault. The orphan problem we now have was caused by 45's spur of the moment 'zero tolerance' policy, not with the people designated to carry out his orders. Another stupid 'Friday on the way to golf' decision someone else pays for.
she is accused of doing things that the Obama administration did, and your newspaper knows this, yet you still find it appropriate to lie to your readers...vile
This Nazi B.
Nielsen did a great job. The failures of previous administrations are well known. Nielsen's only problem was the Left's hatred for trump and his allies. Let's not forget the left loonies have accosted her in the past. Nielsen endured abuses unparalleled by her predecessors.
Good luck to you Secretary Nielsen
She should be indicted
I truly believe you are giving her more credit than she is due for being the Eva Braun of the Admin. Let's start giving full credit to Stephen Miller, the man with dead eyes, who directs all policy. All policy has his filthy facist fingerprints on them
She worked for Obama?
Fox News. Here she comes!
Analysis: Neilsen needed to get involved outside of the US in this crisis. The amount of area to be covered at Mexico's southern border is much easier to control. Mutual Security should have been a strong point. Along with the US Mexico Border wall the cartels could be strangled.
Opinion: Amazon is a massive polluter. WTF do we do with all of the damn cardboard boxes Dead trees, CO2, Chinese products with horrible environmental impacts... Bezos, Rothschilds and ilk are trying to counter their evilness with so-called social justice through media.
She's going to try the usual mantra of past trump 'fires'... 'I stayed to keep it from being so much worse' 'I protected so many by standing up to trump' ...'and here's my book, where I tell America what a kind, moral, compassionate person I really am...I'm just misunderstood.'
this is sexist
We allredy knowing this orange genius hire only best people.
Can I come see your office on a whim? I doubt it because you have borders & security measures in place!!! Hypocrite DoAsISayNotAsIDo YouUseFencesAndLocksAtHome GiveThemYourAddressSoTheyCanLiveWithYou ClothFeedCareEmploySchoolThemToo
Some see it as cruelty yet it is safety. Terrorism strikes in many formats and in all shapes and sizes. We must vet the immigrants for our safety prior to them coming into America. We have terrorists on our soil now. No-one likes to say it but it is true.
What did she hear Auchwitz was hiring?
Just following orders.
How's that 'manufactured crisis' narrative going?
You just don’t like her because of misogyny
Legacy of Washington Post as fake news is also sealed. Only the liberal media and its bubble world perspective combined with snobbish arrogance can make me defend someone when I don’t really want to. It’s probably the biggest reason why Trump won in 2016 and will win again.
I hope the visions of babies and small children in cages haunt her all the days of her miserable life.
I heard Rick Perry is being considered as a replacement for Kirstjen. Does he know this? Has he ever heard of the DHS?
What do you expect out of our leaders when we have a dictator as a leader. Does he not realize that he came from immigrates just like everyone. Native Americans are the true people of America!
Don't forget fealty. She bent the knee to Bloated Orange Joffrey.
Typical post job MSM hatchet job for any Republican cabinet member.
All Started by your BOY OBAMA- never forget- BUT then again it does not meet the TEAM PROPAGANDA
Pretty sure if we change our National position on torture she would make the perfect leader
wonder where she can get a job now? who will hire her? school bus driver? prison matron?
We are happy with some guests when they come, there are some with whom we are happy when they leave. What a pathetic life?
Is it a coincidence that she looks like Darth Zannah, the evil female sith lord from the Star Wars expanded universe?
So SecNielsen would not break the Law for Trump- Trump AKA-CrimeBoss Trump only hires those who will : Lie,Lie,Lie & Break the Law 2020 is Coming
If she was awful, then it’s a good thing she’s gone. Right? So why criticize realDonaldTrump for making the move? Idiotic.
And yet, she was too 'nice' for trump.
Rubin or Bumb?
Trump wants to resume separating families and Nielsen resisted, which contributed to her ouster. She told him what he was proposing was now prohibited by court orders.
Well yeah....sure.... But she’s still pretty MILFy....soooooo
Putting children in cages after separating them from their families *as policy* is cruel, but she also LOST THE CHILDREN. The Hague should be calling her for a chat.
Their don't seem to be any consequences for these people. They move on to be employed by other conservative firms or become commentators on Fox News or Sinclair...or employed by other conservative media outlets or think tanks. Some, like Whitaker, are clearly paid in advance
she's so cagey
Latter-day monsters!
hard to see her face - look forward to it being gone soon. same with trump and many others.
With her gone, how are we ever going to get all those wonderful Norwegians to come
Actually, that's the legacy of Congress who has sat on their hands the whole time and gets a 13% approval rating!!
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