The announcement she is leaving her post comes the day after the president visited the southern border.
CBS News reported that it was not clear whether Kirstjen meant to resign voluntarily or made a decision to step down under the pressure.
Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security who has become a face of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration push, is leaving the administration, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Sunday afternoon.
Nielsen has had a tumultuous tenure that saw Trump steadily ramping up pressure on his team to execute his immigration promises, which he believes is the single driving issue for his base of political supporters.
Mr McAleenan is a longtime border official who is well-respected by members of Congress and within the administration.
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Nielsen is Trump's second secretary of homeland security, taking over the cabinet post in December 2017 after John Kelly became White House chief of staff. Nielsen had worked as a top aide to Kelly at both DHS and the White House. A senior administration official said Trump asked for Nielsen's resignation and she gave it.
Trump has also reportedly blamed Nielsen for a spike in apprehensions at the border of migrant families trying to enter the USA illegally. She had expected to be pushed out last November, but her exit never materialized.
The decision to name an immigration officer to the post reflects Mr Trump's priority for a sprawling department founded to combat terrorism following the September 11 attacks. And during the government shutdown over Trump's insistence for funding for a border wall, Nielsen's stock inside the White House even appeared to rise. Her time overseeing the sprawling department included conflict with Trump and overseeing a policy of separating children from their immigrant parents at the border with Mexico.
Trump insists that the arrival of immigrants across the southern US border constitutes a national emergency so important that he sidestepped Congress' refusal to provide him with several billion dollars he requested to build the border wall. That tension reached its breaking point in the days after Trump abruptly pulled the nomination of Ronald Vitiello to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"We're going in a little different direction".
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