Jessica Vaughan: Kirstjen Nielsen ‘Was Actively Working Against the President’

by Robert Kraychik

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News that former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen actively undermined President Donald Trump’s agenda on border security and immigration, offering her remarks on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Patrick Courrielche.

Mansour invited Vaughan’s comments on Nielsen’s conduct as the former head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following Nielsen’s resignation on Sunday.

“I actually think that [Kirstjen Nielsen] has been on borrowed time for a long time and it shouldn’t have taken this long,” said Vaughan. “It’s the right move. It’s important to hold her accountable for her failures, especially this most recent crisis at the border.”

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Vaughan speculated that Nielsen sought to deflect her former responsibilities for border security by initiating consideration of the establishment of a “border czar.”

“Recently, there was talk about appointing a border czar, and some names were floated of good people with the right vision on immigration policy,” recalled Vaughan. “But we have a border czar, [and] it’s the secretary of homeland security. Kirstjen Nielsen has been the border czar, and there was a report in CNN today that she was the one who started floating this idea, perhaps to distract some attention from her own failure to implement the needed policies.”

Vaughan continued, “Ultimately, she’s been held accountable. I’ll be interested to see what her plan is. Everyone always said she was more comfortable at Davos than in DHS, and I don’t know how — now that she’s the face of family separation — it’s going to be a hard move.”

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