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Trump shifting DHS focus from counterterrorism to immigration

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Nick Miroff reports on the major shift in focus at the Department of Homeland Security. Carlos Lozada dissects the brain trust surrounding Trump, the anti-intellectual president. Plus Joe Fox and Lauren Tierney visit a shrinking national landmark.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

0:05.0

Hi, this is Tracy John Colley from the Post.

0:08.0

I'm a president from PowerU.

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Hi, it's Rodic Devon, at the Washington Post.

0:14.0

This is Post Reports. I'm our team powers.

0:18.0

It's Wednesday, April 17th.

0:22.0

Today, an evolving mandate for the Department of Homeland Security.

0:28.0

President Trump's unlikely brain trust and shrinking at national landmarks.

0:35.0

The Department of Homeland Security has been in the news a lot lately.

0:39.0

The head of that department, as well as a number of other higher ups in DHS,

0:43.0

were recently pushed out.

0:45.0

And that's because Trump thought that they weren't tough enough on the border.

0:49.0

I share the president's goal of securing the border.

0:52.0

CPP is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis.

0:56.0

Look, I think the president is legitimately concerned about the crisis at the border.

1:01.0

So I'm Nick Miraf. I cover immigration enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security.

1:05.0

Recently, that has meant mostly covering the southern border.

1:09.0

Because that's the part of DHS that the president has been focused on.

1:13.0

But then, in addition to these immigration and border-focused agencies

1:18.0

that have consumed the president's attention right now,

1:21.0

we've got things like the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, FEMA,

1:25.0

really it's this kind of sprawling agglomeration of different things

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