BREAKING
Kevin McAleenan Is Out as Acting Homeland Security Secretary
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Maggie Haberman and
WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Friday the departure of Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary for the Department of Homeland Security who spent his six-month tenure trying to curb a surge of asylum seekers at the southwestern border while managing a turbulent relationship with a president intent on restricting immigration.
Mr. McAleenan’s exit from the White House came after he tried publicly to embrace the president's increasingly aggressive assault on legal and illegal immigration even as he privately resisted some of Mr. Trump’s most extreme ideas.
In an interview last week with The Washington Post, Mr. McAleenan complained about what he called the “tone, the message, the public face and approach” of immigration policy — a not-so-subtle reproach of the president’s own language about the border.
The comments enraged some of the president’s staunch allies, who called it an unforgivable public statement about his boss.
Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Michael D. Shear reported from Washington, and Maggie Haberman from New York.
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