Trump’s Immigration Pick Attacked Obama Programs In Ghost-Written Senate Letters

The following article by Marcelo Rochabrun was posted on the ProPublica website May 23, 2017:

If letters written by Lee Francis Cissna, the president’s nominee to head U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are any guide, he’s poised to dismantle Obama-era policies like a humanitarian program for Central American children.

Lee Francis Cissna, President Trump’s nominee to head the federal agency that handles applications for visas, refugee status and citizenship, has put little on the public record in his 20 years as a lawyer, government employee, diplomat and Capitol Hill aide.

But it turns out he has left many clues about how he could reverse Obama-era policies if he becomes director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a non-enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security. Continue reading “Trump’s Immigration Pick Attacked Obama Programs In Ghost-Written Senate Letters”