
Homeland Security Flack Tricia McLaughlin Set To Leave Trump Administration
HuffPost
Americans are increasingly souring on President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's handling of immigration policy.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and vociferous defender of President Donald Trump, is set to leave her position as soon as next week.
Multiple outlets reported McLaughlin’s decision on Tuesday, just as criticism of Trump’s DHS chief, Kristi Noem, has been heating up.
A source familiar with her plans told HuffPost that McLaughlin’s exit has been in the works since December, though, and was delayed in the aftermath of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
McLaughlin has stuck like glue to the administration line that Trump is helping to keep Americans safe by sending armed immigration officers to raid communities around the country, even though relatively few of the people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been found to have violent criminal backgrounds.
Good and Pretti were both shot dead last month by federal agents while they were observing immigration operations — she in her car and he on a Minneapolis street. Their deaths, just weeks apart, sparked a furious response from Americans who have increasingly soured on Trump’s hardline immigration push.













