Nielsen's replacement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, also defended Border Patrol's use of tear gas to repel migrants.
While President Donald Trump announced the resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen this past weekend, the homeland security secretary reportedly once gained the president’s favor after tear gas was used at to repel a group of migrants attempting to cross the southern border.
Border Patrol said it only used the chemical agent after several of its agents were hit by projectiles, though the agency’s commissioner admitted that the patrollers were “wearing protective gear and did not suffer serious injuries.” Nielsen wrote on Twitter at the time of the incident that the department would “not tolerate this type of lawlessness” and would prosecute anyone who “destroys federal property, endangers our frontline operators, or violates our sovereignty.”
Nielsen became the face of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies, including the “zero tolerance” policy that lead to hundreds of family separations at the southern border.
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