Four members of a Department of Homeland Security advisory council resigned last week, calling the Trump administration's immigration policies "morally repugnant." But one of the now-former employees also sent DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen a personalized resignation letter, going even further in her caustic criticism.
"DHS has been transformed into an agency that is making war on immigrants and refugees," wrote Elizabeth Holtzman, a former Democratic congresswoman who was a co-author of the 1980 Refugee Act. She condemned the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries, the lack of support for DREAMers, and the "zero tolerance" policy that prosecutes any and all migrant crossing the border without authorization as "malign and ultimately self-destructive policies."
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