The Trump administration is preparing to dismiss hundreds of high -level internal security Ministry employees this week as part of the transition to rid the third largest agency in the country, which is not calculated in the goals of the administration, according to three sources familiar with a topic.
The sources said that the Trump administration has a “central plan” and a list of people at high -level locations across each component of the Ministry of National Security who will be targeted this week.
The shooting will come Hundreds of general discounts that started via DHS On Friday night, which targeted the Federal Emergency Management and Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency, the Cyber Security Agency and the infrastructure. This extinguishing was the latest in a government effort to reduce the federal workforce.
This week, the three sources have told NBC News that job employees are at high administrative levels, that is, higher executive service and schedule 15 year, can be removed from agencies all over one – not to reduce the size of the workforce but to remove employees who believe that he is likely to stand on the way The goals of the Trump administration of the agency.
The Ministry of National Security, which includes customs and borders for borders, immigration and customs, is the main agency in charge of enforcing the American immigration law. Trump relied heavily on CBP to secure the southwestern border and on ice to increase arrests and deport unconventional immigrants living in the United States.
“Employees at these high levels” are professionals who have an impact on politics and strategy in those positions, “said a former Biden administration,” said in response to the news of the plan.
Trump administration official defended the plan. In response to a question about whether to reduce positions will make it difficult for the Ministry of National Security to achieve goodness in Trump’s targets of migration, the administration official said that the administration removes people who believe “grinding things intentionally.”
“These people put themselves in a terrible situation, and they must be removed,” said Trump administration official.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of National Security and the White House did not respond to the suspension requests.
