The President's obsession with stopping all migrants at the border has telescoped the DHS chief post, from which McAleenan resigned last week, into a job of head of 'Department of Southern Border Enforcement,' writes David Lapan for CNNOpinion
David Lapan served as a press secretary in the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration and is currently vice president of communications at the Bipartisan Policy Center. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Kevin McAleenan spent nearly two decades at US Customs and Border Protection within the Department of Homeland Security. His tenure as acting Homeland Security secretary of the department was brief -- predictably so. Not because of any particular failure on his part, but because he was given a mission impossible.
McAleenan's resignation letter and statements from the President last week indicate he is leaving of his own volition, not being fired or asked to resign because of any perceived failures. However, the next acting secretary will face a similar predicament. He or she may also be saddled with the additional burden of the"acting" title, seen as temporary or tentative.
Inside the power struggle at the Department of Homeland Security 02:56It is important that the President quickly nominate someone who can be confirmed by the Senate and not install another temporary acting secretary. Four secretaries in under three years is too many for such a critical position in our federal government.President Trump's obsessive focus on the southwest border bedeviled McAleenan, as it did his predecessors.
Acting DHS chief: We have an unprecedented crisis 02:09How McAleenan's service during this tumultuous period will be judged remains to be seen. He will be tied to failed policies such as family separation and some of the policy changes that are being contested in the courts. But unlike the President and some of his hardline advisers, McAleenan seemed to understand the need to work closely with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to address the root causes of the migration crisis.
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