President Trump Announces The Secretary of Homeland Security Nominee, October 12, 2017This page was current at the end of the official's last term in office covered by Ballotpedia.

On December 5, 2017, the Senate confirmed her nomination, by a 62–37 vote.

Her comments appear below. Ballotpedia features 315,516 encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers.

I want to thank Deputy Secretary Elaine Duke for her exceptional leadership over the past four months - especially her work leading the response during the destructive Atlantic hurricane season. She resigned from the Secretary on 7 April 2019.

"We cannot detain children with their parents so we must either release both the parents and the children – this is the historic 'get out of jail free' practice of the previous administration – or the adult and the minor will be separated as the result of prosecuting the adult. Surely it is the beginning of the unraveling of democracy when the body who makes the laws, rather than changing them, asks the body who enforces the laws not to enforce the laws. She was commissioned by President On November 9, 2017, the Senate Homeland Security Committee delayed a vote on Nielsen’s nomination to be secretary of homeland security because of 197 follow-up questions that she received from committee members.

We’re at the 24 day mark here. "Nielsen held a press briefing with White House spokesperson On June 20, 2018, after repeatedly arguing that the administration could not sign an executive order to end family separations, she was present at Trump's signing of an executive order ending his "zero-tolerance" policy of separating of children from families.In 2019, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) wrote in a letter to FBI director Christopher A. Wray: “...the FBI should immediately investigate whether Secretary Nielsen’s statements [to Congress] violate 18 U.S. Code § 1621, 18 U.S.C § 1001, or any other relevant federal statutes that prohibit In October 2019, Nielsen defended the family separation policy, saying "I don’t regret enforcing the law. So I must ask: Is the Republican Party still a political party? ... Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Should Order Take Out. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen put down her pen, stood up and hugged the officials from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, thanking …

Following her appointment, Nielsen implemented the controversial Kirstjen Michele Nielsen was born on May 14, 1972, in After leaving the Bush administration in 2008, Nielsen became the founder and president of Sunesis Consulting.Nielsen was a senior member of the Resilience Task Force of the Center for Cyber & Homeland Security Committee at On January 16, 2018, Nielsen testified before the United States Senate in favor of merit, rather than family, based immigration.On March 23, 2018, it was reported that Nielsen agreed with the enactment of the At a May 2018 congressional hearing, Nielsen said that she was unaware of the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election to help candidate Trump get elected.

Before, she served as Principal Deputy White House Chief of Staff to President Donald Trump from September 6, 2017 to December 5, 2017. After graduating from law school, Nielsen practiced corporate transactional law for Haynes and Boone, LLP and worked for former Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.). "During Nielsen's tenure, several incidents at the U.S.–Mexico border between law enforcement and migrants seeking passage attracted international attention and prompted criticism of the Trump administration's approach towards enforcement. Miles Taylor is an American former government official who specialises in security and international relations. I look forward to continuing this Administration's work to raise the standards for the security of our homeland in all areas - including securing our borders, protecting Americans from terrorist threats, and securing our cyber networks.”The secretary of homeland security is responsible for "counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, detection of and protection against chemical, biological and nuclear threats to the homeland, and response to disasters.

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