Trump Names Chad Wolf to Lead Department of Homeland Security
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It's official: U.S. President Donald Trump names Chad Wolf as the new acting head of the Homeland Security Department. Based on a statement issued by 4 current and previous officials of the Department of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump has been considering Chad Wolf to lead the department for sometime now.

Chad Wolf is currently acting the undersecretary for strategy at the DHS. He was also the recent chief of staff to the former secretary to the DHS, Kirstjen Nielsen.

On the other hand, Wolf is not the sole candidate for the position as other well-known candidates are also being eyed to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Some of the people being targeted for the vacant position are Ken Cuccinelli (the US Citizenship and Immigration Services' director) and Mark Morgan (the current Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection).

According to NBC News, he was one of the first drafters of the Migrant Family Separation Policy. This was intended to implement the legality of immigration processing in the strictest sense. This policy is applied after the identification of illegal family immigrants in the United States of America.

Under this policy, the parents are separated from their children. The parents of identified illegal immigrants are then put in federal jail centers while their illegal immigrant children are transferred to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services. Before the policy's implementation, there had been news that said that the policy was being applied before it was officially executed by the government.

When Chad Wolf was working as the chief of staff of Nielsen, he was able to send a list containing his sixteen suggestions on how to control and limit the entry of undocumented and illegal immigrants to the counselor (Gene Hamilton) of the previous Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

From the list that Chad Wolf had created, the second was to "Separate family units."

According to the list sent by Wolf, he suggested that the DHS should make a public announcement about separating family units by sentencing undocumented adults to detention centers and placing the undocumented minor immigrants (children under the age of eighteen) in the roofs of the Department of Health and Human Services. These children will be considered by the country as "unaccompanied alien children".

Currently, the Department of Health and Human Services is taking care of more than 2,800 undocumented children separated from their undocumented parents.

The other policies included in the list are the methods on how to provide for the quick deportation of undocumented children under the possession of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The family separation policy was implemented in 2018 and was later on ended by President Donald Trump through an executive act due to public protests and the spread of emotional image and video content of undocumented children crying for witnessing their parents' detention.

The involvement of Chad Wolf with the family separation policy and his other suggestions and contributions to the control of illegal immigration in the United States of America had inspired the Trump administration to choose him for the position.