More Top Homeland <br />Security Officials to <br />Exit in Trump Purge Sources say that three more <br />top Homeland Security officials <br />are expected to leave the department. The head of U.S. Citizenship <br />and Immigration Services, <br />the Secret Service director and the <br />agency’s general counsel will depart the agency. Their exits come a day after <br />President Donald Trump <br />announced that secretary Kirstjen <br />Nielsen would be "leaving her position." While all of the <br />officials were <br />appointed by <br />the president, they are seen as allies <br />of Trump's former chief of <br />staff, John Kelly, who left the <br />administration in late 2018. Trump has picked <br />seasoned Secret Service <br />official James M. Murray to head <br />the department beginning in May. The president has <br />demanded a "tougher" <br />stance on border security.
