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‘A ‘A Constant Game of Musical Chairs’ Amid Another Homeland Security Shake-Up

New York Times logoWASHINGTON — Turmoil intensified on Tuesday inside the agency responsible for securing the country’s borders as a top official was replaced by an immigration hard-liner and former Fox News contributor who last week pushed for nationwide raids to deport undocumented families.

That hard-liner, Mark Morgan, will take over as the head of Customs and Border Protection, administration officials said Tuesday.

The move again overhauls leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, which is responsible for cybersecurity, disaster relief and the enforcement of customs, border and immigration law, just two months after a purge of officials destabilized the agency.

View the complete June 25 article by Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie Haberman on The New York Times website here.

Mark Morgan to replace John Sanders as border chief as DHS shake-up continues

Washington Post logoA week after beginning his reelection campaign with promises of mass deportations, President Trump sent the agencies responsible for immigration enforcement deeper into disarray on Tuesday, replacing his interim border chief with a figure he plucked from cable news punditry last month.

Mark Morgan, who Trump installed as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in early June, will take over as acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, replacing John Sanders, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials and a legislative staffer briefed on the move.

Trump ran for president promising a sweeping immigration crackdown and a monumental border wall, but he has presided over the worst migration crisis in at least a decade while dizzyingly hiring and firing DHS officials. The shake-up Tuesday comes after weeks of interagency squabbles and political knifings among agency officials who are struggling to cope with a record surge of migrant families and squalid conditions inside U.S. Border Patrol detention cells stuffed beyond capacity.

View the complete June 25 article by Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey on The Washington Post website here.