Campaign Action
Donald Trump has nominated former Border Patrol head Mark Morgan to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, following ongoing consultation with a trusted advisor. “It appears that Trump liked what he saw during a series of appearances Morgan made on the Fox Business Network show Lou Dobbs Tonight, immigrant rights advocacy group America’s Voice said.
Morgan was on the state-propaganda channel praising Trump’s policies as recently as last week, telling Dobbs that “I know this border. The president is doing the right thing. He's right on this issue.” He then said Trump had not spoken to him about a job, but gushed that he “would work for him in a heartbeat.” By May 5, Trump announced via Twitter that Morgan was his guy, calling him “a true believer and American Patriot.”
As America’s Voice notes, “of course” Trump is taking advice on immigration policy and how to run the United States from Dobbs, who, like Trump, is a hateful asshole who has taken advantage of undocumented labor to keep his sprawling personal property looking pretty. When Trump has already tried to recruit people he’s watched on television during executive time, that’s not even the question.
The question here is what Morgan believes and what he’ll do should he be confirmed, and the Senate must find that out. Does he support the barbaric policy of forcibly separating families at the southern border? What about a “Sophie’s Choice” scenario, America’s Voice asks, where parents “would be given a choice of whether to voluntarily allow their children to be separated from them, or to waive their child’s humanitarian protections so the family can be detained together, indefinitely, in jail-like conditions”? Would he bend to the whim of White House aid and white supremacist, Stephen Miller? The Senate needs to find out.
Not to mention find out what he thinks, under oath, about the fact that the Trump Organization has shamelessly exploited a large number of undocumented immigrant workers at numerous Trump properties. Undocumented labor has even folded the president’s Fruit of the Looms. “Nominees for critical posts used to be selected in consultation with Congress, not Lou Dobbs,” said America’s Voice leader Frank Sharry. “They used to be selected because of their expertise, not their fealty to Trump’s border wall and his failing deterrence-only policies.”