Trump Officials Are 'All In' For Border Chaos

[DonViejo]

‘If I am Nielsen, I am definitely going to be all in with the president’s demands about potential use of force because I wouldn’t want to lose my job,’ said a former official.

Erin Banco, Asawin Suebsaeng
11.27.18 4:55 AM ET

When border agents fired canisters of tear gas into a crowd of unarmed migrants in Tijuana over the weekend, officials in the Department of Homeland Security and White House quietly cheered. It was exactly the fodder they needed in the waning days of Republican-controlled Washington to pressure Congress for billions to fund the border wall.

That sentiment, which was palpable at DHS in particular, startled some in the highest ranks of Customs and Border Patrol, an official in the agency told The Daily Beast.

“They are totally all in. They have gone batshit crazy,” one former senior official said of leaders inside DHS and the White House. “They are getting exactly what they want, which is the ability to present the narrative that the border is out of control.”

Behind the scenes, officials inside the White House and Department of Homeland Security had no plans to change course or call for restraint by law enforcement agents, according to six current and former officials familiar with conversations about border security. That thinking was apparent in a statement issued by DHS Monday evening in which Secretary Kristjen Nielsen doubled down on the administration's stance on use of force, saying that the violence at the border was “entirely predictable.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-officials-are-all-in-for-border-chaos?ref=home

[HopeAgain]

1. Happy little racists,

they are.