McAleenan Defies Trump: Border Policy ‘Went too Far,’ ‘Illegal Alien’ Term Has ‘Racial Overtones’
Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan straightforwardly resisted President Trump and his "America First" movement plan on different fronts in a meeting with the Washington Post. Zero Tolerance Policy McAleenan, who served beforehand as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner, disclosed his complaints with different issues in the Trump organization to the Post, at one point pronouncing lament over the "Zero Tolerance" approach utilized at the United States-Mexico fringe a year ago. Trump's Zero Tolerance was intended to indict all outskirt crossers, even those landing with kids, at the southern fringe and to guarantee grown-up outskirt crossers were not just discharged into the U.S. inside insofar as they landed with a minor. McAleenan said the strategy "went excessively far," as per the Post: "How might we let these runners deceive these urgent families?" he stated, portray