Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen is under fire for prioritizing and politicizing the migrant caravan currently 1000 miles away from the U.S. Sourthern border instead of focusing of this week’s terror attacks that have targeted now 12 top Democrats and activists including two former U.S. Presidents.
Nielsen Thursday appeared on Fox News at the U.S. border, promising to defend American citizens from the estimated four to eight thousand migrants marching towards the United States to flee the poverty, drugs, and gang violence they face in Honduras.
But the migrant “caravan,” which President Donald Trump is using as a tool to fear-monger and to literally scare up more votes, is 1000 miles away from the U.S. It will take them weeks if not a month or more to reach the border, if they reach it at all.
Many are asking why the Secretary of Homeland Security needed to travel to the border, and appear on Fox News primetime when their literally is exactly zero threat to American citizens or U.S. sovereignty reeks of politics – something Homeland Security is not supposed to engage in – less than two weeks before a highly contested election.
Nielsen is even advertising her Fox News performance:
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent:
Here’s how some others are responding to Secretary Nielsen: