Trump will appoint Kris Kobach or Ken Cucinelli as Immigration tyrant

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The U.S President Donald Trump is again threatening to shut down the southern U.S border. He is looking into bringing a Border or Immigration tyrant to work on immigration policy across various federal agencies. The top candidates on President Trump’s short list for “immigration tyrant” include Kris Kobach (Kansas Secretary of State) and Ken Cuccinelli (former Virginia Attorney General). Both have far-right conservative views on immigration policy. Kobach formerly ran for an unsuccessful bid for Kansas governor with the promise to drive undocumented immigrants out of the United States. He is currently working for WeBuildthewall Inc., (a nonprofit corporation) and raising money to build the president’s infamous U.S-Mexico border wall.

Cuccinelli is famous for championing hard-line immigration views including denying citizenship to U.S-born children of undocumented immigrants. It allows in-state tuition at public universities just for citizens or legal residents. It also grants employees to file lawsuits against their employer if they knowingly hire an undocumented immigrant who took a job. Cuccinelli has made a visit to the White House on Monday. The expected appointment comes on the heels of the president’s threatening call to close the U.S-Mexico border this week if Mexico doesn’t completely stop undocumented immigration into the country.

The White House aides informed the AP that the immigration tyrant position is still in the planning stages and is hoping whoever it might serve as the face of the Trump administration on immigration. They are also hopeful for appointing an immigration tyrant would appease the president’s supporters. It would provide them a committed and taking action because it is a broken immigration system. It is still unclear whether the tyrant position will fall within the U.S Department of Homeland Security or the White House to bypass the U.S Senate confirmation requirement. The DHS is the U.S federal agency managing and implication of the immigration policy.