Created in the aftermath of 9/11, DHS is being redefined as its focus shifts to the southern border.
Built on a hill in Southeast Washington, the new $5 billion headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security has a commanding view of the nation’s capital, a sentry post meant to symbolize DHS’s role as protector of the United States.
Several of the senior DHS leaders who gathered to cut the ribbon last week at the new campus — the largest federal construction project in Washington since the Pentagon — will not be staying long enough to work there. It’s DHS’s immigration enforcement agencies — ICE, CBP and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, whose director may be the next to go — that have Trump’s attention right now.Trump was long frustrated with Nielsen’s inability to reduce border crossings, but the final straw came earlier this month when she traveled to Europe to attend a Group of 7 summit and meet with counterterrorism and cybersecurity officials.
Trump made his top border security chief, Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of DHS. A longtime official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, McAleenan has a background in counterterrorism and aviation security. A former senior administration official said Trump sometimes called cybersecurity “the cyber” and said that dealing with it, or talking about it, would only get you in trouble. He has occasionally joked to aides that the world would be better without computers and other devices after hearing about potential attacks and hacks — and would grow bored during lengthy technological briefings about cybersecurity from Nielsen, former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert and others.
“As complex an enterprise as the department has become . . . you really need steady leadership at the top,” she said. Obama administration officials said that the department deserves credit for raising awareness among state and local governments about possible hacking of election systems. The administration requested $750 million for a new polar icebreaker — a top request of the Coast Guard’s — in its fiscal 2019 budget. But the funding sat in limbo for months, as House Republicans sought to spend $5 billion to begin building Trump’s proposed border wall by cutting funding from a variety of other DHS programs. Congress ultimately approved $655 million to begin building the polar ship, the first of six the Coast Guard wants.
Leiter said the Trump administration has been “obsessively myopic” about the threat of terrorists coming across the border with Mexico.
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