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Nielsen's ouster underscores Trump's failures on the border
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nielsen-s-ouster-underscores-trump-s-failures-border-n991991"SNIP.....
By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is out. But President Donald Trump’s failures on the border remain.
The number of migrant families at the border is surging.
Trump still doesn’t have his border wall, even though Democrats offered him $25 billion for itin return for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program being signed into law.
The administration continues to reel from its one-time practice of separating migrant children from their families.
And oh, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history took place due to the president’s insistence on a border wall (which he still doesn’t have).
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