USCIS director L. Francis Cissna ousted to make room for Cuccinelli, the conservative firebrand and former Virginia attorney general.
President Trump plans to install Ken Cuccinelli as the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, placing the conservative activist and former Virginia attorney general at the head of the agency that runs the country’s legal immigration system, administration officials said Friday.
McConnell has vowed to block Cuccinelli from getting confirmed for any position, blaming him for leading a 2014 effort defying McConnell that promoted insurgent candidates running against sitting Republican incumbents. And Cuccinelli signed a letter drafted by conservative activists two years ago calling on McConnell to step aside.L. Francis Cissna, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Director speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in December 2017.
Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller has been agitating for Cissna’s removal for months, and he has repeatedly railed about Cissna to the president, saying he is not in favor of the Trump administration’s agenda and has slow-walked some of its biggest initiatives — while not writing enough regulations.
Miller believed Cissna would be fired during the last DHS purge, officials said, but a number of Republican senators — including Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley — rallied to Cissna’s defense. A senior White House official said Cissna was temporarily saved after Trump saw how many influential Republicans, and even hard-line immigration hawks, were praising him.
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