COURTS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s purge of top Homeland Security officials ignores the larger obstacle to his aggressive immigration agenda — the courts. With DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of the way, and other officials in the department expected to be pushed out, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller hopes to accelerate or pursue more aggressive enforcement policies, including one that allows children to be detained more than 20 days and another that would deny green cards to immigrants who’ve received public assistance or are deemed likely to do so. Miller has also pressed to revive family separations at the border, though when asked about this Tuesday [4-9-19], the president said, ‘We are not looking to do that, no.’ But even if Trump ‘cleans house’ — a phrase he’s never used, he told reporters Tuesday — he’ll still need to follow the law, and federal courts have ruled repeatedly against his most audacious policies on immigration…In the most recent example, a San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Trump’s ‘remain in Mexico’ initiative, which sought to force certain non-Mexican asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico until the conclusion of their case in the U.S.”
–Ted Hesson, “Trump’s immigration plans face likely turbulence in courts,” Politico April 9, 2019 4:48 pm