{"id":14695,"date":"2017-08-01T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14695"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:42:33","slug":"new-homeland-security-boss-easy-1-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/08\/01\/new-homeland-security-boss-easy-1-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New Homeland Security Boss: Easy as 1-2-3?"},"content":{"rendered":"
In picking a successor to\u00a0John Kelly<\/a>\u00a0at the Department of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump has an opportunity to deliver on his signature issue and clean up a sprawling bureaucracy that was politically compromised under Barack Obama.<\/p>\n Kelly took strides toward restoring morale during his brief tenure as DHS secretary. It is imperative to keep the momentum going in the right direction. Voters who elected Trump \u2013 and all Americans, for that matter \u2013 deserve to see three priorities achieved:<\/p>\n Responsible for enforcing immigration laws, Homeland Security also administers a host of guest-worker programs, from high-tech H-1B visas to an array of low- and semi-skilled permits. EB-5 investor visas<\/a> have been particularly problematic and subject to political abuse under Republican and Democratic administrations alike.<\/p>\n The new DHS boss must stand up to the cheap-labor crowd and partisan grifters who relentlessly seek to expand already unprecedented levels of immigration and gain amnesty for illegal aliens. The new secretary must also maintain Kelly\u2019s attention to\u00a0 border enforcement, which has resulted in\u00a0 a sharp decline in illegal crossings<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n\n