Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
Manuel Balce Ceneta | By Reuters
The Trump administration is preparing to fire hundreds of senior DHS employees this week, the third largest person to relocate the country, seen as the one who is seen as a mistake with the administration’s goal. matter.
Sources said the Trump administration has a “centralized plan” and is in senior positions in every component of the DHS that will be targeted this week.
The shooting will be in Start with DHS Friday night, targeting the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. These dismissals are the latest government-wide effort to reduce the federal labor force.
This week, three sources told NBC News that senior management professional staff, namely senior management services and general timetable 15 employees, may be removed from the DHS’s agencies – not to reduce the size of the workforce, but to evacuate the government Employees believe the Trump administration has potential goals for the agency’s goals.
The DHS, which includes customs and border protection and immigration and customs enforcement, is the main body responsible for the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. Trump relies heavily on the CBP to secure restrictions on the southwestern border and on the ice to increase the deportation of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
A former senior Biden administration official said the staff of “professionals” are “professionals who have an impact on policy and strategy in these positions, and he responded to news about the program.
Trump administration officials defended the plan. Asked whether lowering the position would make it harder for the Department of Homeland Security to achieve Trump’s immigration goals, administration officials said the administration is evacuating people who people believe are “deliberate efforts to get stuck.”
“These people put themselves in a terrible position and need to be removed from office,” Trump administration officials said.
A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement: “Under President Trump, we are conducting comprehensive cuts and reforms across the federal government to eliminate decades of waste and incompetence at the expense of American taxpayers. ”
